You would think the wetlands are right next to the river, but not in this case. The flood wall actually separates the wetlands from the river, and the sky bridge that goes over the wall gives you passage from one place to the other.
An interesting feature in the park is a “water path” that goes below the water level. If anyone can figure out how the path is prevented from being flooded during a downpour, I’d like to know.
The “one more lane, bro” (actually it’s four more lanes of elevated motorway through mangroves that should have been protected instead) project between Tamsui and Beitou has already begun. Construction temporary offices are almost finished in Hongshulin, so digging it’s going to start rather sooner than later.
Bike path between Guandu and Hongshulin will be massively disrupted, maybe even totally closed. This is my guess given the characteristics of the project.
If you live far away and were planning a bike trip through the affected area… Do it NOW, don’t wait.
If you’re like me and you need to ride through the area anytime you want to ride south… Well, you’re screwed.
Oh crap.
This looks pleasant to ride on!
edit: Also I love realistic amount of traffic in this rendering 
Gives @lostinasia more chances to take the train down to Sky Dragon City to cycle 
Second time in two weeks a get yelled at by cyclists after stopping on a riverside bike path. Makes me furious. Those entitled axxholes. If you want to race in your fancy outfits, do it during a time of the day or in an area when/where there are not tons of people in those parks. Those bike paths are not exclusive Autobahns for bike riders. I am pretty sure cyclists have to always yield to pedestrians and whoever is walking or stopping on those paths. If you see people, slow down and ring your effing bells!
These are the worst ones! It’s a recreational cycle path with pedestrians having right of way, it’s designed for people to have a fun tootle about not for knob ends who think they’re in a Tour De France time trial! There are mountains all around Taipei, take your expensive bike and gear and trial yourself with some real cycling.
Yes they do!
Ringing your bell at people to get out of your way is not only some abhorrent behaviour but also a fineable offence! A little tinkle to warn of approach is fine however the pedestrian has priority so the furious ringing of a bell at someone walking in front of you is not. Most cyclists seem to lose the power of speech when they mount their mighty steed and lord over lesser individuals, a polite “excuse me” goes a hell of a long way, imagine walking behind someone and furiously ringing a bell to get them to move aside!
That’s what I meant. Let people know that you wish to pass, don’t queeze your way through out of the sudden and then yell at people.
You were on your bike? And you slowed down and parked to the side? Were you blocking the bike path? Was it too narrow for one parked aside and still allow for people to pass?
Wide, two lane bike path. We stopped with our bike (two seater, one of those with a kid’s seat). Cause my boy dropped something, so we went back to pick it up. We were in the right lane, maybe a bit to the middle, when we were yelled at. But why should that matter? We have all the right to be there on the bike path, walking, standing, whatever, without feeling to be in danger of getting hit by people on their racing bikes. They need to slow down and pass us in a safe manner. I do this all the time when riding on my own and there are like elderly hiking groups occupying both lanes. Slow down, let them know you want to pass and be polite.
Yeah and in the same way you could walk next to a friend and occupy the whole side-walk, or drive next to another car and occupy the whole road, or stand on an escalator next to somebody so nobody can pass, without caring for people behind.
The kind of people that think they can fully occupy a shared road or path or anything really, and have no mind for people coming from behind, are the worst.
No, the worst are the ones who endanger others pursuing their leisure activities selfishly.
Selfish people are annoying, I get it. In our case however, we were not selfishly blocking the entire path. Just stopping for a brief moment out of necessisty, inconveniencing selfish cyclists who did not want to slow down.
The Circle Taipei Challenge is not helping to make the bike paths more friendly to leisure riders. It’s been going on for more than a year now with more and more participants each month. Every month, people try to finish in the top 600 on the leaderboard in order to get a prize. The organizer also rewards those who have completed the circle 48 times or more, or accumulated 5,000 kilometers.
So you get rewarded for riding fast on those bike paths?
If that’s the case, that’s very unfortunate, considering that there are lot of pedestrians, including the elderly and children using those path, especially on weekends.
No, you get rewarded for completing the 66 kilometer circle, and naturally, people try to do it as fast as they can when they see the top 600 slots are getting filled.
While we’re on the topic, Strava is not helping to make the bike paths safer either when users constantly try to break their PRs in various riverside segments.
Yeah I guess you are right. The people I have in mind are mostly mindless sheep and not even that selfish, they just do not think beyond what they can see. From what you said it sounds like you are not amongst that group.
Thanks for the heads up!
If it’s for “one more lane” and the mangroves haven’t been protected like they should have, could the bicycle path not be widened as well?
The bicycle lane in the video and @autorelease 's picture looks too narrow for two way cycle traffic plus pedestrians. Just like it is now/was before work was started?
(I know with this post I am probably opening a can of worms due to considerations like “if you make it wider, people will go too fast”, “replace the roads with parks”, and (once again!) as Coogan tells Julie in “Dirty Harry”, “I’m trying to picture it the way it was, just the trees and the river, before people came along and fouled it all up.”)
Oh well, will probably be years before we see that cycle path anyway, just like the continual construction and closure around Bali beach and on the way there 
Have the construction walls been taken down yet on the Bali side left bank?
I kind of stopped going that route when they put the walls up for construction.
Which ones? 
The first (?) set of walls near Guandu bridge, the temple with the 24/7 “Namo Amitabha” chant, and elsewhere finally got taken down but some others went up.
The nice blue tiled Guanyinkeng Stream Bridge was having some maintenance work carried out on it but then collapsed a few days later last April and has still yet to be replaced, so there is a mafan switch back over a tiny metal bridge where you have to push your bike up and down two or three short ramps.
Then there is the road and coastal cycle path near Bali beach that have been closed for four or five years and may reopen late this year or when the Danjiang Bridge from Bali to Tamsui is finished next year.
Between Guandu Bridge and Bali riverfront?
I think they were put up like last spring or summer. They were even tearing down mangroves.
Not the ones that were up earlier like 2022 and then down.
I’ll probably just have to do a ride and see how it is these days.