Traffic control will be enforced around Taipei Stadium and Taipei Arena tomorrow for the evening’s closing ceremony of the Deaflympics.
Beining Road will be closed to traffic from 4pm until 12am. The sections of Bade Road surrounding the stadium and the arena will be partly closed from 4pm to 12am.
Flexible traffic controls will be enforced on the section of Dunhua N Road between Civic Boulevard and Nanking E Road from 9pm until 12am.
Fang Yang-ning (方仰寧), head of the Taipei City Police Department’s traffic division, said the parking lot inside the Taipei Arena and roadside parking space for scooters surrounding the Taipei Stadium and Taipei Arena would be closed from 4pm to 12am to prevent scooters from blocking the traffic before and after the ceremony.
The Department of Transportation encouraged people attending the closing ceremony to use public transportation. The department will provide free shuttle buses at Exit 9 of the Zhongxiao Dunhua MRT Station and Exit 5 of the Zhongxiao Fuxing MRT Station before the ceremony from 5:30 pm until 7:30pm.
Free shuttle buses, available at the intersection of Bade Road and Dunhua S Road, will provide transportation to the MRT stations after the ceremony between 10pm and 11pm, the department said.
The closing ceremony of the Deaflympics will be held at 7:30pm at Taipei Stadium. An outdoor banquet, a cultural tradition in Taiwan in which chefs cook at an outdoor venue, will be the theme for the closing ceremony, with athletes invited to sample local delicacies such as beef noodle soup and steamed dumplings.
The closing ceremony will also feature performances including drumming shows, U-Theatre and a Taiwanese opera show by Ming Hwa Yuan Group.
Emile Sheng (盛治仁), CEO of the committee, said the banquet would move to an indoor venue at either Taipei Arena or Nankang Exhibition Hall if it rains. As both indoor venues are smaller than the stadium and therefore could not accommodate as many people, the committee said it would provide reimbursement to those who were unable to attend as a result.
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