Gwangju-si Regional Traffic Safety Implementation Plan Performance 'Excellent'

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 10th that it was selected as the overall first place among special and metropolitan cities in the 2019 Regional Traffic Safety Implementation Plan Performance Evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

This is the achievement of being selected as the overall first place for two consecutive years following the previous year.

The Regional Traffic Safety Implementation Plan Performance Evaluation has been conducted annually by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport since 2008 to verify the effectiveness of the plan and enhance execution power, encouraging local governments to improve traffic safety management. The evaluation consists of performance areas such as facility improvement, publicity, education, enforcement, and cooperation with related organizations, as well as effect areas such as reduction rate of traffic accident fatalities and improvement rate of traffic culture index.

To ensure fairness in the evaluation, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport formed an external expert evaluation committee to conduct a strict review. Gwangju City received high evaluations in areas including traffic safety facility improvements, publicity, education, enforcement, cooperation among related organizations, promotion of excellent policies, reduction of traffic accident fatalities, and improvement of the traffic culture index.

The city has actively worked to reduce traffic accident fatalities by operating a traffic accident reduction collaboration team to share traffic safety policies and collaborating with the National Police Agency to actively enforce drunk driving and speeding crackdowns.

In particular, the city thoroughly analyzed traffic accidents involving commercial vehicles, expanded traffic safety facilities in accident-prone areas, improved pedestrian environments, conducted accident prevention publicity activities using online and offline media, and actively provided focused education for vulnerable traffic groups such as the elderly and children.

This year as well, the city is doing its best for traffic safety by activating the traffic accident reduction related organizations collaboration team, strengthening non-face-to-face publicity through radio, broadcasting, websites, electronic billboards, and SNS, expanding facilities to protect vulnerable traffic groups such as the elderly and children, and focusing on policies to prevent motorcycle accidents.

Park Gap-su, head of the city's Traffic Policy Division, said, “The excellent results in the 2019 Regional Traffic Safety Implementation Plan Performance Evaluation, following 2018, were achieved through the active participation and cooperation of all citizens,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to establish a rational traffic safety management system, including reducing traffic accidents.”

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