Kaohsiung's traffic satisfaction ranks first, life is better

During his term of office, Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai actively promoted traffic improvement projects, ranking first among the six cities in the 2026 Municipal Satisfaction Survey on Roads and Transportation. The Facebook community Kaohsiung Good Life reviewed Lai Ruilong's transportation policies and evaluated Lai Ruilong as a more reliable choice regardless of his political views or the continuation of Chen Chimai's performance in power.

Hao Guori pointed out that Lai Ruilong has placed the improvement of human-oriented transportation at the top of the transportation policy, including comprehensively promoting the popularization of physical sidewalks, effectively ensuring pedestrian space, and popularizing and connecting safe zones for students on campus.

Lai Ruilong is also the first mayoral candidate to sign the "White Paper on Humanistic Transportation Improvement Commitment" of the Next Generation Humanistic Transportation Promotion Association, and agrees with the demands of completing the comprehensive construction of physically protected sidewalks on roads larger than 12 meters before 2030, establishing a legalized "school-access zone" to ensure the way for school children to go to school, proposing a clear project schedule for road space improvement, practicing traffic equality to improve the availability of public transportation in rural areas, and promoting the integration of people-oriented rail construction and mass transportation.

Hao Guoli believes that these commitments are not casual remarks. In fact, Lai Ruilong is very familiar with the traffic engineering improvement work that the Chenchimai City Government is continuing to promote. The Transportation Bureau and the Works Bureau work closely together. It is the most progressive city in Taiwan in terms of related engineering concepts. It also ranked first among the six cities in the 2026 Vision City Municipal Satisfaction Road and Transportation.

Take the marked circles that the Transportation Bureau will promote in 2024 as an example. From the first example in the Sanduo business district so far, 10 circles have been changed, and traffic accidents have dropped by 70%; the Transportation Bureau has also established 41 deceleration platforms, reducing the average speed by 26%; established 108 pedestrian shelter islands, bad driving behaviors have dropped by 62.3%, and straying into lanes has dropped by 94.2%. The proportion of left-turn side collisions in Kaohsiung City has dropped by 17.2%.

Hao Guori pointed out that Kaohsiung’s traffic engineering has improved in recent years, and cases have been accumulated to the extent that local empirical research can be conducted, and the results are very good! Moreover, the Transportation Bureau always has to go door-to-door to communicate despite the backlash from residents and representatives of the public. It is not easy to continue to move forward with a much smaller budget and very few manpower than in Taipei.

If the future mayor can adhere to these directions, the governance of each bureau will be able to continue. No matter in terms of political views or the performance of his administration, Lai Ruilong will be a more reliable choice.