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Incheon City proposed to the government the rapid construction of key transportation infrastructure in the island region. Baengnyeong Airport passed the preliminary feasibility study in 2022, but the feasibility study is in progress due to increased project costs due to design changes. The Jangbongdo-Modo Bridge was selected for preliminary feasibility study last year.
Incheon City announced on the 13th that it had recommended the government to expedite construction of key transportation infrastructure in the island region.
Incheon Mayor Park Chan-dae met with Minister of Planning and Budget Park Hong-geun the day before and requested cooperation to ensure that the feasibility study for the Baengnyeong Airport construction project and the preliminary feasibility study for the Jangbongdo-Modo bridge construction project are passed within the year.
Baengnyeong Airport, which will be built on an 810,000㎡ site in the Solgae district of Baengnyeong-myeon, Ongjin-gun, is planned to have a 1.2km long runway for takeoff and landing of 80-seat passenger aircraft, an apron, and a passenger terminal.
The preliminary feasibility study was passed in 2022, but the total project cost increased from the original 201.8 billion won to 391.3 billion won due to design changes to ensure the safety of aircraft takeoff and landing, and a feasibility study is in progress from September 2024.
The city believes that construction of an airport is urgent to ensure residents' right to travel and to transport emergency patients, as ferry service to Baengnyeong Island is suspended when the weather worsens.
The Jangbongdo-Modo Bridge is a sea bridge with a total length of 1.8km and two lanes.
The total project cost is 108.5 billion won, and it was selected as the subject of a preliminary feasibility study last year, and the investigation is currently in progress.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
There is a possibility that the Baengnyeong Airport feasibility study and the Jangbongdo-Modo bridge preliminary feasibility study will be passed within the year.
Possible · Within months

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