Changhua County Magistrate Wei Ming-ku strives to promote county infrastructure by planning high quality traffic and parking environment. On the 11th, he led a team of City Hall staff and Town Mayor of Lukang Huang Chen-yan and Buxin Township Mayor Chang Cheng-yu to Japan, where they visited Kyoto City Hall and local municipalities. They also inspected Kyoto’s traffic and parking planning in the hopes of borrowing their experience to improve Changhua’s traffic and parking management in the future.
Since his inauguration, County Magistrate Wei has strived to build the “Three Traverse and Three Longitudinal” “Three Rails and Three Bridges” road network. Furthermore, he has also advocated the creation of parking spaces to resolve the problem of inconvenient parking in the city, hoping to generate thriving developments in the region. During the visit, the Kyoto City Hall has provided concise briefing and guided inspection tour, and Country Magistrate instructed relevant departments to heed the successful experience in Japan and formulate a comprehensive promotional project in order to progressively solve the issue of traffic and parking in Changhua County.
Kyoto is an ancient Japanese capital and one of the most popular cities in the world. Just like Changhua, it also has narrow streets. However, through Japan’s convenient public transport and parking management, the vehicle and pedestrian traffic is still relatively smooth. Together with the ancient capital ambiance created through the tidy, orderly street landscape, Kyoto is able to attract tourists from all over the world.
In order to improve the problem of insufficient parking and long-term occupation of parking space in the county, the County Government Department of Public Works has conducted the revision of “Changhua County Public Parking Autonomous Regulation”. In the future, various district offices will reexamine the condition of roadside parking, where the fee collection technique will be applied to eliminate the problem of long-term parking space occupation and increase the turnover rate of parking spaces, thereby satisfying the parking needs of the surrounding business activities. In addition, the County Government has also proactively promoted public transport to minimize the use of private vehicles on the road, in turn restoring order to the city traffic.
In the future, while vying for the creation of Lukang National Historic Area, County Magistrate Wei also instructed the Department of Public Works to consider solving Lukang’s traffic situation a priority by reducing chaotic pedestrian and vehicle traffic and the common problem of peddlers. The aim is to create a people-oriented public transport system and tourism environment in order to enhance the quality of tourism and attract tourists. The development experience of Kyoto is a lesson from which the Changhua administrative team can learn from.
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Source: Changhua County Government Websites