The Kaohsiung City Government is presenting a bicycle carnival tomorrow as part of this year’s World Carfree Day activities.
The carnival is scheduled to begin at 7:20am in front of the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit System’s Central Park Station.
Participants wil proceed along Chungshan, Siwei, Haibien, Hedong, Mingsheng, Minchuan and Wufu roads to the Kaohsiung Culture Center, the city’s Transportation Bureau said yesterday.
The 6.5km ride will include several of the major tourist attractions in downtown Kaohsiung, the bureau said.
Participants will be allowed to bring foldable bicycles on any of the city’s 584 buses all day tomorrow, it said, adding that Kuo Kuang Motor Transport has also promised to allow passengers to take their bikes on its buses till the end of this month.
The Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corp said cyclists will be able to enter and exit the rapid transit system through the Central Park Station without exception tomorrow.
The company usually only allows bicycles less than 1.2m high, 1.8m long and 70cm wide to get on and off trains at designated stations on the north-south Red Line between 10am and 4pm on weekdays and between 6am and 1pm and 8pm and 11pm on holidays.
The regular designated stations are Siaogang (小港), Caoya (草衙), Cianjhen Senior High School, Shihjia (獅甲), Houyi (後驛), Aozihdi (凹仔底), Ecological District, World Games, Nanzih Export Processing Zone, Houjing (後勁), Metropolitan Park, Ciaotou Sugar Refinery (橋頭糖廠) and Ciaotou (橋頭).
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