Creating a Safe Alleyway in the 107m Section of Manguro 65ga-gil Alley, Sinnae 1-dong, Jungnang-gu

Through the 'Safe Alley Design' Project, Alley Environments Troubled by Illegal Dumping Improved... Residents Lead from Site Selection to Design Planning in Citizen Participation Budget Project

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Jungnang-gu (Mayor Ryu Gyeong-gi) has embarked on creating safe and clean alleyways by reflecting residents' opinions.

The district applied the CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) approach to an old alleyway that had many complaints due to illegal dumping, transforming it into a pleasant and orderly alley.

The back road of Manguro 65ga-gil, selected as the "Safe Alley Design Project" site, was a place where residents experienced significant inconvenience in their living environment and safety due to habitual illegal dumping and deteriorated walls.

The district sought solutions together with residents to improve the alley. First, by collecting residents' opinions, the exterior walls of the 107-meter-long alley were repainted with white as the main color and blue as the accent color to transform the alley's image.

Additionally, anti-attachment plates were installed on utility poles to prevent illegal advertisements in advance.

Efforts were also made to improve the long-standing problem of illegal dumping. Facilities marking garbage disposal zones and signage explaining disposal methods were installed, and on walls prone to habitual dumping, polite and emotional messages encouraging residents to keep the alley clean were inscribed to naturally induce participation.

Along with this, to enable residents to easily locate fire extinguishers placed in the alley for initial fire response, information design was painted on the ground to enhance alley safety.

Residents' participation played a significant role in the safe transformation of the alley. The Sinnae 1-dong Residents' Autonomy Committee (Communication Division) applied for the "Safe Alley Design" project as a citizen participation budget project in 2019. In June 2020, they conducted street resident voting, alley meetings, and thorough field surveys to select the target site and proposed many ideas for the alley's transformation.

Ryu Gyeong-gi, Mayor of Jungnang-gu, said, "It is very meaningful that we could create a safe alley through active resident participation," and added, "We will continue to make local alleys pleasant and safe to reduce residents' inconveniences."

Since 2015, the district has been carrying out the "Safe Alley Project," continuously striving to create paths where residents can walk with peace of mind, including ▲ 2015 Alley Flower Path Creation (Sinnae 1-dong) ▲ 2016 Mural on the School Retaining Wall of Junghwa High School (Junghwa 1-dong) ▲ 2017 Environmental Improvement of Idle Land in Yongma Baekkot Village (Myeonmok 3 & 8-dong) ▲ 2018 Safe Staircase Construction (Myeonmok-ro 30-gil) ▲ 2019 Railroad Soundproof Wall Road (Sinnae 1-dong).

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