New Taipei City (新北市) police are taking steps to avoid congestion at an annual rock festival that will be held next month at Fulong beach, in anticipation of huge crowds, according to the city’s traffic division.
The Ho-Hai-Yan Gongliao Rock Festival, which starts on July 11, is expected to attract a bigger audience than the 800,000 recorded last year. The city’s traffic division is therefore putting measures in place to prevent traffic jams in the areas near the beach venue.
A total of 228 police officers and 85 volunteers will be deployed in the area to monitor and control traffic from 10am to midnight on the five days of the festival, said Chen Mu-shu (陳木樹), head of the city’s traffic division.
Photo: Wu Liang-yi, Taipei Times
Parking will be prohibited on several roads, including Longmen Street, Fusing Street, Fulong Street, the section of Highway 2C leading to Lingjiou Mountain and Provincial Highway No. 2, he said.
The idea is to separate pedestrian and vehicular traffic to allow a smooth flow, he added.
The city’s police department said there are enough parking spaces for 2,560 cars and 2,720 scooters.
However, the public is strongly advised to use public transportation such as trains to get to the venue to avoid traffic congestion, it said.
The free music festival is one of the biggest annual indie events in the country, featuring performances by local and foreign artists.
This year, one of the headliners will be the award-winning Taiwanese band Mayday (五月天), which is scheduled to perform on the last day of the festival.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
UNAWARE: Many people sit for long hours every day and eat unhealthy foods, putting them at greater risk of developing one of the ‘three highs,’ an expert said More than 30 percent of adults aged 40 or older who underwent a government-funded health exam were unaware they had at least one of the “three highs” — high blood pressure, high blood lipids or high blood sugar, the Health Promotion Administration (HPA) said yesterday. Among adults aged 40 or older who said they did not have any of the “three highs” before taking the health exam, more than 30 percent were found to have at least one of them, Adult Preventive Health Examination Service data from 2022 showed. People with long-term medical conditions such as hypertension or diabetes usually do not
Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching
POLICE INVESTIGATING: A man said he quit his job as a nurse at Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital as he had been ‘disgusted’ by the behavior of his colleagues A man yesterday morning wrote online that he had witnessed nurses taking photographs and touching anesthetized patients inappropriately in Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital’s operating theaters. The man surnamed Huang (黃) wrote on the Professional Technology Temple bulletin board that during his six-month stint as a nurse at the hospital, he had seen nurses taking pictures of patients, including of their private parts, after they were anesthetized. Some nurses had also touched patients inappropriately and children were among those photographed, he said. Huang said this “disgusted” him “so much” that “he felt the need to reveal these unethical acts in the operating theater