I was using google maps to look at some hiking trails, and when I clicked the satellite view, something strange appeared on the corner of the map.
At first it looks like a giant solar panel farm to me. Upon closer inspection, it almost looks like some kind of seafood farm, but it’s nestled in a valley. If it isn’t water, and isn’t a solar panel farm, and certainly not a parking lot, then what the heck is it?
you got that half right.
it looks like an orchard or something like a strawberry farm
Are you saying it is a greenhouse? A greenhouse wouldn’t have all those circular contours though would it? Unless it is simply that black tarp they put up…
if you go to the road leading up to it, it looks like an abandoned building project (2015), like the foundations have been started
Ok, so it is a parking lot. Why is there a giant parking lot in the middle of nowhere?
I wouldn’t jump to that conclusion. Bing may have some AI image classification which has erroneously guessed it as being a carpark.
Google has it marked up as a parking lot
海科館轉運站停車場
Maybe to start of an out of town park and ride?
I classified it as car parking lot based on the aerial Bing imagery.
The city council of Keelung inspected the construction of the transfer station on Tiaohe Street on the 16th, and many city councilors believe that the crowd of the sea science museum is not as expected, and they are worried about the transfer station becoming a mosquito parking lot. Keelung mayor Lin Youchang said, still according to the plan to build, complete the administrative contract with the sea science museum, the subsequent operation of further negotiations. The city council made a resolution after discussion, urging the city to work towards changing the direction of use, so that the land can be used to maximum effect.
The city government’s transportation director, Li Gang, said during a briefing to members that the Tiaohe Street transfer station parking lot and surrounding facilities were previously completed and were to be opened to the public in advance, but the Marine Ecology Museum said there was no urgency in parking because of the suspension of the Marine Ecology Museum project, and hoped to take over the operation only after the original administrative contract was completed, including the main station and other projects.
Keelung City Council on the 16th to inspect the Tiaohe Street transfer station construction project, the main station is currently idle. Reporter Qiu Ruijie／Photo Keelung City Council today inspected the construction project of the transfer station on Tiaohe Street, the main station site is currently idle. Reporter Qiu Ruijie／Photo
The main engineering design of the interchange station has been completed, because the site is located in Ruifang, in February this year has applied to the New Taipei City Government to build a license, if approved in June, the end of this year will be completed.
City Councilor Lu Mei-ling pointed out that the construction of the transfer station has been a series of twists and turns, and it can be said that when it should be built, it is not built, and when it should not be built, it will be built. Zhang Geng Hui said that the transfer station is to disperse the traffic flow, but the project has been delayed, now there is no crowd, building a parking lot is not useful. The city should re-evaluate the need to build the transfer station, as the Marine Ecology Museum is stillborn and the number of visitors to the Marine Science Museum is not as expected.
The city’s administrative contract with the Museum of Marine Science is for the city to build the transfer station and then hand it over to the Museum of Marine Science to take over the operation, with the city sharing the profits. The city’s current job is to complete the contract, the sea science museum in the future to operate the transfer station if the city needs to help, and then by the Ministry of Education, the sea science museum and the city to negotiate.
Lin Youchang said that the current tide park visitors nearly 2 million times a year, the flow of people have come to Keelung. The city government is currently building a cross-sea bicycle path on Wanghai Lane, and plans to extend it to Pinglang Bridge and Tidewater Park in the future, plus the Baduzi and Wanghai Lane fishing village reconstruction project to create greater tourism capacity.
Speaker Tsai Wang-lien finally made a conclusion, urging the city to pay attention to the progress of the project, and to study in the direction of multi-functionality, and to promote the change of use plan under the premise of legality, so as to maximize the benefits of the transfer station.
There you go. Disappointing result, I was hoping for some sort of mysterious munitions factory.
I saw that, but I thought google meant that tiny parking lot next to the bus stop. 海科館 is actually a bit out of the way down the hill, but I guess they planned to have some kind of shuttle to get people down to the aquarium. I guess not a lot of people actually goes there to justify opening the parking lot?
Google claims it’s satelite image is from 2021, so I guess it’s just the parking lot has deteriorated due to neglect.
Tourist attraction? Maybe it’s heaving with locals every weekend going for the exhilarating experience of having one foot in New Taipei and the other in Keelung?
Here is the transfer route to the National Museum of Marine Science and Technology from that parking lot. I guess it is supposed to have regular bus transfer to the museum in the future.
Read the news article I linked previously.
It might just be a lower image resolution.
Or an old image.
oops… didn’t see that part
