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Busan to remove pedestrian bridges, crosswalks to be alternated

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With a drive to improve the safe pedestrian environment by citizens and civic groups, Busan Metropolitan City has embarked on removing pedestrian bridges and extending pedestrian crosswalks. Busan Metropolitan City said on August 25th that by the year 2010, the city will convert vehicle-oriented traffic culture into a pedestrian-oriented traffic environment.

As a token for this traffic policy, Busan is to remove a pedestrian bridge in Seomyeon amidst the most severe traffic congestion downtown and make two more crosswalks instead.

With comparison to the first traffic plan, which focused on improving school zones, this second blueprint, focusing on heightening the pedestrian environment, differs slightly from the first plan. To execute this second traffic environment plan, Busan will focus on removing trunk roads' pedestrian bridges and reviving crosswalks so as to offer citizens a substantially safe pedestrian environment.

From August 1st thru 15th, Busan City has already surveyed all of the 166 pedestrian bridges now being used. On the basis of these survey results reflected by citizens' opinions, Busan City will decide whether or not which overpasses have to be demolished after negotiating it with Busan Metropolitan Police Agency and traffic experts.

It is expected that the construction costs for making crosswalks and removing pedestrian bridges in the Seomyeon area will arrive at a total amount of 55,000,000 won.

Busan City will organize a Council, compromised of related experts from Busan City, Busan Metropolitan Police Agency, Busan Development Institute, and civic groups at first, and a detailed master-plan will have been completed by November.

 

The source of news : Busanilbo, 2005. 08.26. 09:10