‘GTX Yangjae Station Transfer Center’ Wins Top Award in Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Competition

Direct Connection from Seocho IC on the Expressway to Seocho-gu Complex Building with Transfer Center... All Transportation Modes Including Subway, Express Bus, Taxi, and Bicycle Within 5 Minutes One-Shot Transfer... Scheduled for Completion in 2026 Along with GTX C Line and Seocho-gu Complex Building

GTX Yangjae Station Transfer Center Rendering

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Seocho-gu (Mayor Eunhee Cho) has been selected as the best station in the pilot project competition for the Seoul Metropolitan Area Express Railway (GTX) station transfer center by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for the ‘Yangjae Station Transfer Center’ it is promoting.

The project received high praise for proposing an alternative that reduces commuting time for southern metropolitan area commuters by 30 minutes to over an hour and significantly alleviates traffic congestion in the Gangnam area, as well as for its excellent transfer convenience, allowing transfers within 5 minutes for any mode of transportation.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s Metropolitan Transportation Committee has been conducting a pilot project competition for local governments since June to build transfer centers that minimize transfer times between GTX and other transportation modes to within 3 minutes. On the 11th, it selected 10 stations including the Yangjae Station Transfer Center. Among them, the Yangjae Station Transfer Center was selected as the best station along with Suwon Station.

The Yangjae Station Transfer Center received the highest score from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport for utilizing its locational advantage adjacent to Seocho IC to directly connect the highway and the transfer center, establishing an excellent transfer route system, and preparing an integrated plan linked to Seocho-gu’s complex government building project, which is being attempted for the first time nationwide.

The Seocho IC road, the gateway to Seoul via the Gyeongbu Expressway, is experiencing severe traffic congestion to the extent that buses, express buses, and private cars are tangled together in one place, resembling a parking lot.

The Yangjae Station Transfer Center proposed a groundbreaking alternative that reduces commuting time for southern metropolitan area commuters by 30 minutes to over an hour by linking with the GTX-C railway.

The Yangjae Station Transfer Center offers excellent transfer convenience, enabling ‘one-shot transfers within 5 minutes’ for all transportation modes including GTX-C, Subway Line 3, Shinbundang Line, express buses, bicycles, taxis, and private cars.

A dedicated bus-only direct passageway was opened at Seocho IC to facilitate entry and exit to the GTX Yangjae Station Transfer Center, and the transfer center allows quick transfers between the GTX-C railway and Subway Line 3 and Shinbundang Line.

Additionally, it provides convenient connections to taxi and private car transfer parking lots through the Seocho-gu Office new building.

By allowing some of the 69 bus routes that turn around near Gangnam Station on Subway Line 2 to turn around at the Yangjae Station Transfer Center directly connected to Seocho IC, bus travel times will be reduced and bus routes concentrated at Gangnam Station will be dispersed, greatly alleviating traffic congestion in the Gangnam area.

Since the ‘Yangjae Station Transfer Center’ is built underground beneath the road, it has a system that allows convenient direct transfers from the underground 2nd-floor bus transfer center to Subway Line 3 without the need to change floors, unlike the Jamsil Transfer Center.

It is also designed to be connected to the Seocho-gu Office complex building, allowing convenient use of various administrative, cultural, and living SOC facilities.

A taxi, bicycle, and PM (Personal Mobility: electric kickboards, etc.) parking lot will be newly established on the basement 1st floor and ground level. Seocho-gu is also in consultation with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport about introducing a state-of-the-art UAM (Urban Air Mobility) terminal on the roof of the new office building.

Meanwhile, by winning the grand prize in the competition, Seocho-gu will receive 200 million KRW for basic planning from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport next year, as well as administrative support from a general planning team composed of experts in transportation, architecture, and urban planning. Starting with the commencement of the basic planning service next year, the project will be accelerated with the formation of a consultative body with Seoul City, aiming for the simultaneous completion of the complex government building and GTX-C Yangjae Station Transfer Center in 2026.

Seocho-gu Mayor Eunhee Cho said, “The creation of the Yangjae Station Transfer Center is an ambitious project of Seocho-gu that has been continuously planned since inspecting the IC underground terminal linked to the M30 highway in Madrid, Spain, in 2016,” adding, “We will realize Seocho-gu’s new attempt to directly connect the highway and the transfer center and link it with the government complex development to contribute to improving transportation in the southern metropolitan area.”

She also stated, “We will steadily promote the creation of the Yangjae Station Transfer Center to make Yangjae a new transportation hub in the Gangnam area linked to the Gyeongbu Expressway.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.