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A new bridge that connects the Hsinchu HSR station directly to the Science Park has been completed and opened to public yesterday. The bridge itself took about 2 years, but the entire project of linking these two places has been worked on incrementally for the past 10 years.
It took off about 10 minutes off my evening commute. Now that I know I should avoid sharing the road with Zhubei bound traffic, I can probably shave off 20 minutes from now on.
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Until it’s full of traffic in a year or so when everyone thinks it’s a time saver. Funny how there’s budget for a highway but none for public transit in Hsinchu.
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Ok so it will be completed when we’re dead. It doesn’t cover all of Hsinchu.
They have buses, start using them.
But their buses come once a day. We need transit now. Not in 2032.
This current plan has been proposed by former mayor Lin Chih-chien and approved and funded by the Tsai administration, but it just takes time to acquire land, and iron out the details of station designs before actual construction can begin.
If we want transit now, they should have began the project at least during the Ma administration, however, during the Ma administration all proposals for light rails or other forms of public transit has been deemed to not be economical. They kept concluding that there won’t be enough ridership to justify the cost.
The roads already exist. Transit is not only trains.
The issue with Hsinchu is that we need transits in and out of the Science Park, however the Science Park itself was designed to be separated from the city for tax purposes, and now there is essentially only 1 major road (Guangfu Rd.) and 2 choke points in the form of 3-way junctions in and out of the Science Park. That one major road isn’t particularly a big through way either. That’s what has doomed Hsinchu traffic, and all the bridges across the river and the railroad don’t else either.
No amount of buses is going to help if they are all stuck in traffic also.
Then give buses their own lanes and right of way. Let the cars wait.
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That would leave cars and scooters with just one lane on each side on that major artery of Hsinchu.
GOOD! That’s all cars and scooters need.
The road’s purpose is to transport as many people as possible. Not as many cars as possible.
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And what about the fire-engines, the ambulances, or the semi-trucks delivering to the Science Park?
Emergency vehicles have immunity and can take any lane they want.
What good is that immunity when there’s just 1 lane with no curb to speak of.
Redesign the intersection to ensure that public transit has first pickings.
When less people take private transit. Those that need to drive will find their drive much smoother.
When you prioritise need over greed, then things work smoothly.
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Which is what the light rail is for. Taipei had plenty of busses before even construction on the MRT began, yet the traffic was horrendous in the 80s and the 90s.
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number 38, Section 5, Xinyi District
It is expected to build a new building with 6 floors underground and 37 floors above ground, with a building height of 138.4 m
The 1st to 4th floors above the ground are planned to be general retail, catering, and offices; the 5th to 37th floors are residential buildings; the underground floors are catering, hotels, and parking.
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Breeze Group announces construction of new Keelung mall
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