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MOTC unveils plan for festival holiday traffic

Ministry of Transportation and Communications officials announced proposals yesterday to facilitate transportation during the Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, which begin on Tuesday, Sept. 25.

Most people, however, will begin their holiday on the weekend prior to the festivities.

Taiwan Area National Freeway Bureau Director-General Lee Tai-ming (李泰明) said yesterday the bureau expects heavy traffic on the morning of Sept. 22 and the evening of Sept. 25, with the number of vehicles on the roads reaching 2.4 million on each day.

Lee said traffic is expected to be slightly heavier than that experienced during this year's Dragon Boat Festival.

To ease traffic, the bureau is considering going toll-free on Sept. 22 and Sept. 25 between 12am and 6am. It said it would not close any freeway ramps during this time and that the metering system on the ramps would be activated.

The bureau said that congestion would likely occur on southbound lanes in the sections between Neili (內壢) and Jhongli (中壢) on the Sun Yat-sen Freeway (National Freeway No. 1) and between Dasi (大溪) and Longtan (龍潭) on the Formosa Freeway (National Freeway No. 3).

The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) said yesterday that more than 2,100 flights were scheduled between Sept. 20 and Sept. 26.

CAA Director-General Billy Chang (張國政) said that as of yesterday, Sept. 21 flights from Taipei and Tainan to Kinmen were sold out.

Some seats were still available on the Chiayi to Kinmen flights on Sept. 22, however, but return flights from Kinmen to Taipei, Taichung and Tainan on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25 were all sold out, he said.

Flights from Taipei and Taichung to Penghu on Sept. 22 were sold out and seats on the return flights from Penghu to Taichung on Sept. 25 were all reserved.

Twelve cross-strait charter flights have been arranged to serve customers between Sept. 18 and Oct. 2.

Six Taiwanese and two Chinese airlines have applied to operate charter flights between Taipei and Shanghai.

Meanwhile, the Taiwan Railway Administration said that 183 departures would be added to its regular schedule during the holidays and monitoring teams would be dispatched to various stations.
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