Special measures will be put in place during the Tomb Sweeping Festival weekend to cope with an anticipated spike in visitors to the Taipei International Flora Expo, expo organizers said yesterday.
The Expo Operational Headquarters said it would launch safety and traffic controls from Saturday to Tuesday, as the number of visitors to the expo could break the 7 million mark by Monday.
EXTRA MANPOWER
A total of 3,000 workers and volunteers will be assigned to assist visitors to the expo and extra manpower will be deployed at the Yuanshan MRT Station, which is close to the expo’s main venue, the organizers said.
In addition, the number of shuttle buses running to the expo venues will be increased to 143 per day during the Tomb Sweeping weekend, they said.
“I am sure we will set a new single-day record of visitors during the holiday,” organizing committee director Ting Hsi-yung (丁錫鏞) said.
On Feb. 27, the number of visitors to the expo hit a daily record of 150,666.
PRE-SALE TICKETS
Ting urged people holding pre-sale tickets to the expo to visit as soon as possible to avoid major holidays like the Tomb Sweeping weekend.
“It is becoming increasingly urgent that we spread out the visits as the closing date of the expo approaches,” Ting said.
He said that about 2.1 million sold tickets had not yet been used. The expo ends on April 25.
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