Taipei’s Department of Transportation has failed to fix some of the city’s most dangerous road intersections, two city councilors said yesterday.
Democratic Progressive Party councilors Wang Wei-chung (王威中) and Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜) said that two of the 10 most dangerous intersections listed by the department in 2013 again topped the list for last year.
“The department should have taken measures to reduce accidents at these intersections, but these same intersections continued to top the list [last year] as accidents increased,” Wang said.
According to department statistics, accidents at the intersection of Civic Boulevard and Zhongshan N Road — the city’s most dangerous — increased 28 percent last year to 69 cases.
There were 62 accidents at the intersection of Zhongxiao W Road and Zhonghua Road, a 29 percent increase.
Wang said the figures showed that the department’s measures have been ineffective in improving traffic safety, adding that overall accidents for the 10 most dangerous intersections increased last year.
Traffic Safety Division head Chen Kuan-lung (陳冠龍) said that the number of accidents at the two intersections last year did not reflect improvements made by the city because they were only completed in November due to their complicated nature and the need to wait for the Songshan MRT line to begin operations.
He added that accidents at the other eight most dangerous intersections in 2013 all fell significantly last year.
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