From September, the government will start to alleviate the inconvenience of metropolitan transportation by introducing chartered buses to and from Seoul during commuting hours to Dongtan 2 New Town in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do and Godeok District in Pyeongtaek.
The Metropolitan Area Transportation Committee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 21st that it would alleviate traffic inconvenience by designating Hwaseong Dongtan 2, Pyeongtaek Godeok, and Suwon Homaesil districts as special measures among existing new cities. Special measures districts designate areas where the implementation rate (based on the budget execution rate) of the metropolitan transportation improvement measures is less than 50% among districts that have already moved in or are expected to move in within one year. An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “In the short term, we will introduce a chartered bus or create a new inter-regional bus route, and in the long-term, we will find complementary points such as the expansion of railways, which are the basis of inter-regional transportation measures.” “We will gradually increase the number of special countermeasures zones.”
This is due to the increasing traffic inconvenience of residents of new towns, and it is a follow-up measure after President Yoon Seok-yeol ordered transportation measures for commuting to and from the metropolitan area in a work report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 18th of this month. When large-scale development projects (area of 500,000 m2 or a district with a population of 10,000 or more) such as the creation of a new city, a plan to establish a metropolitan transportation network is established. However, according to a survey conducted by the Daegwang Committee in May and June of this year, the average implementation rate of the metropolitan traffic improvement measures in the second phase of new cities, such as Gimpo, Dongtan, and Incheon, was 67%. In particular, in Hwaseong Dongtan District 2, more than 80% of tenants have moved in by the end of the year, but the implementation rate of transportation measures is only 42%.
In addition, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will conduct a full-scale survey of the traffic conditions in 128 districts (87 in the metropolitan area, 20 in Busan/Ulsan, etc.) for which regional transport improvement measures have been established, and the measures for each district will be announced sequentially from September. An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “In the process of expanding the new city’s wide area transportation network, there is a delay in the expansion of the transportation network due to delays in consultation between the local government and the implementing company such as the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH). said
Reporter Jeong Soon-gu soon9@donga.com
