The anti-Chen Shui-bian (
The Taipei Bureau of Environmental Protection yesterday mobilized 175 sanitation workers and cleared 20.5 tonnes of garbage, a record for a single event.
According to Jiang Ching-hui (
PHOTO: LIU HSIN-DE, TAIPEI TIMES
Trash
The crowd left behind raincoats, cardboard, newspaper, plastic bags and other trash piled around trash receptacles or in the breezeways in front of buildings, he said.
When the crowds were finally dispersed at 6am yesterday morning, he said his bureau immediately sent out a 175-person crew, as well as 19 vehicles including garbage trucks, street cleaners and sanitizers.
It took two hours to return the streets to their original state, he said.
Jiang said that the cleaning company hired by the anti-Chen headquarters had been issued with four tickets for violations to the Waste Disposal Act (廢棄物清理法) for failing to clean up the garbage left in the Ketagalan Boulevard area.
Despite the voices of protest on Friday night around the Taipei Railway Station, the noise level generated by the parade fell beneath the 65 decibel noise control limit.
Meanwhile, Taipei's mass rapid transit (MRT) system registered a passenger flow of 1.52 million on Friday as tens of thousands of protesters flooded the city center to take part in the so-called "siege" staged by Shih's camp.
Record high
The figure represented a new single-day high and compares to the passenger flow of 1.14 million recorded for March 13, 2004, when a rally was held in the city by the opposition pan-blue alliance to boost its presidential campaign and for March 27, 2004, when supporters of the alliance continued a week-long demonstration challenging the outcome of the presidential election, the officials said.
Passenger flow reached 1.42 million on Dec. 31, 2004, when the MRT system operated until 2am the following day to facilitate residents participating in New Year celebrations, they said.
The passenger flow totaled 1.57 million for New Year's Eve 2005 and New Year's Day this year, when the MRT system operated around the clock, they said.
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