The Taipei City Government yesterday promised to enhance traffic control measures to prevent traffic congestion in Xinyi District as the Taipei City Hall Bus Station, located at the intersection of Keelung Road and Zhongxiao E Road, will open next month.
The station will serve as the transportation hub for 14 bus companies, with services to Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Yilan.
Taipei City’s Department of Transportation and President International Development Corp, the contractor for the 31-story building, yesterday celebrated the opening of a passage that connects the station with the Eslite Bookstore and area department stores.
Cheng Chia-liang (鄭佳良), the head of the department’s public transportation division, said the department opened Lane 20, Sec 5 of Zhongxiao E Road to two-way traffic earlier this month to ease congestion.
The department will also adjust bus routes and reduce the number of buses on Keelung Road from 115 per hour to 39 per hour to ease traffic congestion in the area, he said.
The division said there could be more than 250 buses entering or exiting the terminal during rush hour.
Traffic congestion is expected to worsen when department stores and hotels in the station building open at the end of the year.
The bus terminal and waiting area occupy about 2,400 ping (7,934m2) of the 43,000 ping building. The 31-story building also features a shopping mall and hotel.
Cheng said the department expected that the passage and another underground passage in the bus station could replace the sidewalks on Keelung Road and become popular routes for people to use to get to Taipei City Hall, the Taipei World Trade Center and Taipei 101.
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