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A silver horse that spent 100 million to oppose GTX, why an unusual investigation by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport?

[이데일리 김아름 기자] Eunma Apartment in Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, which barely crossed the rebuilding threshold after 23 years of promoting the maintenance project, seems to be put on the brakes once again due to a problem with r GTX. This is because the government has made it public that it is asking the Eunma Apartment Reconstruction Promotion Committee to investigate the misuse of 100 million won in public funds. It is noted that the government imposing punitive sanctions on a particular complex is excessive administrative power, but in the background, it is explained that the national goal of easing traffic congestion in the metropolitan area is being prevented from happening for the benefit of a particular group. . .

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 23rd, the promotion committee used 97 million won for the rally against GTX of various income. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport revealed 52 cases of ineligibility as a result of a joint inspection of the Eunma Flats Reconstruction Promotion Committee and a meeting of tenant representatives. An investigation is requested for four of these cases, and fines are imposed for 16 cases.

Meanwhile, the committee has held protests around the home of Chung Eui-sun, chairman of the Hyundai Motor Group, where the construction company Hyundai E&C belongs, and near the Sejong government building of the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs, demanding detour to prevent the GTX route from passing under Eunma Apartment for safety reasons. In response, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs refuted that there is no problem by advocating a vibration-free and noise-free TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) method.

Eunma’s apartment in Daechi-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul. (Photo = News)

On the 17th, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong showed a strong stance on Facebook through an article titled “How long should the feet of 300,000 residents of the metropolitan area be tied?”

He said, “We cannot tie the feet of 300,000 residents of the metropolitan area who have to commute to Seoul every day because of the baseless agitation of the person in charge of rebuilding Eunma Apartment, which has a share of 1/1000 of a house.” It incited people to rally against GTX and even used public funds recklessly. He pointed out that there is absolutely no basis for the claim that it is dangerous to build a tunnel in the basement of an apartment building.”

“I can no longer accept the extreme selfishness that I have to rebuild, but GTX must not go under my feet,” he stressed. If the GTX enters Samsung-Yangjae-ro without penetrating under Eunma Apartment, claimed by the Promotion Committee, it will pass under other apartments and houses, and complaints about it are also expected to be filed. In order to build a GTX route, it has to be held eventually under someone’s house, be it Eunma Apartment or another apartment.

The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs explained that the reason for the investigation into Eunma Apartment was massive complaints.

An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “There are many complaints against him. There are many civil complaints asking for proper control and supervision of where variable income is used and how it is implemented,” he said. Procedural flaws were suspected in an important national project called GTX, and it was considered that important.”

In fact, there is a lot of demand waiting for the early opening of GTX. In particular, during the period of skyrocketing house prices, a number of flats that have risen in house prices by drawing attention to the good news about GTX experience the biggest reduction. In some regions, even minus blood appears. This is the reason why complaints from local governments are sure to increase.

Meanwhile, the extension of the GTX AC route and the addition of the DF route are promises made by President Seok-Yeol Yoon, and the government plans to delay the 5th national railway network construction plan, which was due to be announced originally in 2026, for more than a year in order to move forward with the plan to build the new GTX and DF extension line. It is known that it will be established soon.

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