Shen Boyang proposed to build a special bicycle bridge across the Keelung River from Windward to Hong Kong. The Transportation Bureau reminded that careful evaluation is needed

Taipei mayoral candidate Shen Boyang of the Democratic Progressive Party mentioned the concept of "connection, maintenance and supplementation" at a transportation policy press conference yesterday, hoping to turn bicycles from a leisure option on holidays to a daily commuting option. One way is to build a "Fengfeng-Hongqian Cross-Keelung River Bicycle Bridge" to make up for the breakpoints across the river and embankment. The Transportation Bureau reminded that it must be carefully evaluated on the grounds that it involves bridge piers, road space, and consumes huge amounts of money but the actual benefits are unknown. In response to this, Shen Boyang responded today that the "Iron Horse Commute" is something that the Taipei City Government has always wanted to promote, but has not been successful in promoting it, so it has come up with ideas to do it better. In the so-called dark period of construction, the Eastern Ring Section of the Circular Line has started construction, and it is already a dark period, so it is proposed what should be done and what kind of response methods should be used to relieve it.

The "Windward-Hong Kong Special Bicycle Bridge across the Keelung River" proposed by Shen Boyang is divided into a section across the Keelung River and a section across the dike top avenue, with a total length of 340 meters. The section across the Keelung River is a 220-meter-long, 8-meter-wide steel arch bridge; the section across the Diding Avenue is a 120-meter-long, 8-meter-wide steel bridge, with a total length of 340 meters. A simple version of the sports station "Tiema Station" will be set up at the end of the inner lake, including elevators, simple loading and unloading equipment, and a composite bicycle service space. The construction period is estimated to be 1 year and 10 months, and the required funding is 957 million yuan.

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The Transportation Bureau believes that the city government has studied the bicycle bridge across the Keelung River two years ago, which involves bridge piers, road space, tap water transmission and Taipower power supply pipelines. During the construction period, two lanes will need to be closed for more than two years, which may seriously affect the traffic in the inner lake. Hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent. Whether it can relieve commuter traffic must be carefully evaluated; however, it is not guaranteed.

Shen Boyang said that the so-called dark period of construction (which should correspond to what the Transportation Bureau said "two lanes need to be closed for more than two years during construction") is actually a dark period now. This is not what he said, but what the blue, green and white legislators are saying. The Taipei MRT Ring Line East Ring Section has already been in a dark period since the construction started. The policies proposed now are all aimed at what to do and what methods to use to relieve the dark period that is currently ongoing.

Shen Boyang emphasized that, especially for bicycle lanes, the North City Government has publicly told everyone and encouraged everyone to "commute by horse". This is the North City Government's own policy. Since the North City Government has proposed policies, it should think about how to make it easier for people to choose to use bicycles. This is the key point, so the team proposed how to expand the road network and use the micro-forest policy mentioned before to increase tree shade and increase the incentives for citizens to ride bicycles.

Shen Boyang added that many people were criticizing the "iron horse commute" yesterday. Please note that the "iron horse commute" is a policy that the North City Government has been trying to promote but has not succeeded in promoting. It wants to make it better.

In addition, Shen Boyang's idea of ​​building a bicycle-only bridge has been gradually simplified on the Internet as a single discussion of "solving internal transportation." However, he pointed out at the meeting yesterday that "there are many solutions to Neihu transportation, and this time I mentioned only one of them. It does not mean that the solution to Neihu transportation is just one. No, it also includes the previously mentioned flexible working hours, new hardware facilities and other supporting facilities."