There’s a bridge/pass from Kuan Chuan neighborhood, very nice, very fancy. But otherwise all that nice infrastructure has no safe entrance for kids and elderly. Which is a great pity.
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This is a common problem with many riverside parks in Taipei area. They are mostly detached from neighbourhoods and getting into them by walk is kind of a nightmare. There’s not much use of a relaxing walk in a park when you have to walk through Taiwan’s pedestrian hell for 40 minutes to go in and out of the park. Throw kids, elderly, disabled… into the equation and those parks are mostly out of reach.
Special mention to the kind of park but mostly highway aberration between Sanchong/Luzhou and Xinzhuang/Wugu. It’s something mostly designed for cars to go through and cars to bring people in and out.
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Getting way off topic but these riverside parks in Taipei are pretty much all connected to riverside paths, you can’t really get much safer access. Sunshine park in particular has great pedestrian access from both sides of the river in both directions! You are allowed to count walking to the park along a riverside park as exercise, it’s not limited to being in the park…
Sanchong/Luzhou has a massive riverside park with an exit from the MRT station directly into the park, there’s even a kids slide from the MRT exit down to the park Sanchong / Luzhou | New Taipei City Travel doesn’t get much more convenient than that.
Xindian police at their finest today. Reported a truck for driving onto and along a painted green sidewalk. Truck narrowly missed a pedestrian, clipping her sun umbrella on it’s way down the sidewalk. Reported for driving on the sidewalk and for not giving way to a pedestrian. No response on the first report as yet, but for the second…
“檢視影片中難以以該車車身碰撞行人所撐雨傘作為不暫停讓行人之違規事實，由旁觀之第三者(舉發單位、行政法院)就台端影片之舉證程度難謂得以形成無疑之正確心證，則依法礙難舉發，謝謝您熱心公益。”
Quick googly
So you need to actually hit the pedestrian and not just something they are holding!
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An access from a metro station that is literally on the park should be a given. Although I do agree it is a great, and fun, access for folks living around the station and for the rest of the city. My point is that access to the riverside parks is not always easy and convenient even for people living close to the rivers. Of course the flood barriers will always complicate things, specially for people with mobility issues, but the fact that most of these parks have an extra barrier in the form of a hideous stroads and/or elevated motorways with the usual great Taiwanese pedestrian infrastructure complicate things even more. I would love to give you exact examples of places where people should have to walk much further distances than ideal to access these parks, but I don’t have time now to look for them. And no, walking to the park through the usual Taiwan urban shitiness is not part of the fun.
They are still the best part of Taipei, by far. It is just that they should be more accessible. Then the aforementioned park is mostly full of high speed roads where pedestrians and cyclists have little to zero priority.
Just remembered this one. Not an example of longer distance, but a prime one for shitiness. This is the peatonal access from Sunshine Sports Park metro station to the park of the same name.
A park with a pretty great playground. Taiwan considers this is a fit access for kids to go to the park.
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Not a route to it I would choose, especially as you can walk all the way on a physical sidewalk to the junction at AnYe street beside the temple, takes about 4 mins more than walking through the tunnel of death.
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Last in a series of firework displays in Bitan this evening. New pedestrian crossing is sort of operating but still coned off, no signage though and the useless f$t f&^k taxi driver “directing” the traffic is just funnelling cars into the mess in front of the car park, letting people make their own mind up as to whether it’s operating or not. Probably over 50 pedestrians trying to queue in the traffic each time before it cycles to green, wheel chair users and those pushing baby strollers having to veer off the crossing and into traffic to get around the cones and try to find somewhere to get onto the high sidewalk, in the 30 seconds or so they’re alloted. No police to be seen. I fired off about 20 texts reporting vehicles parked on pedestrian crossings, on red lines, on sidewalks over the course of an hour or so when I was there, no police presence. I bet a lot of people are sorry they travelling on foot/bus/MRT/bicycle when confronted with the traffic mess the local authorites have allowed to happen.
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I was about to bring this one up when access to Sunshine Park was brought up. There’s also this gem of a crossing on the road running next to the park:
Lowered curb so that wheelchairs and strollers can access the lamp posts?
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Scooter future drivers
they learn like that, 
the news say:
““Keelung’s first public motorcycle license practice field is scheduled to open before August this year, which will be especially convenient for students and the public who want to take their license exams during the summer vacation.
Located in the open space under the highway bridge in Ziqiangli, Qidu District. It is not exposed to the sun or rain.””
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I like the way they have scantily-clad eye candy on the side of the course, as an example of a real-world distraction. 