"KTX Singyeongju Station Parking Shortage Alleviation" ... Gyeongju City Adds 450 Public Parking Spaces

Construction Starts in March, Completion Expected in December This Year... Approximately 680 Spaces Including Existing 230 Spaces to be Added

Gyeongju City will additionally create a public parking lot with a capacity of 450 spaces in the area of 1000 Hwachon-ri, Geoncheon-eup, Gyeongju City, adjacent to the KTX Singyeongju Station plaza. The photo shows the expected construction plan.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Jae-ho] Gyeongju City, Gyeongbuk announced on the 26th that it will additionally create a public parking lot with 450 spaces in the area of 1000 Hwacheon-ri, Geoncheon-eup, adjacent to the KTX Singyeongju Station plaza.

When the project is completed around the end of the year, the number of parking spaces at the KTX Singyeongju Station public parking lot will increase from the existing 230 spaces to around 680 spaces.

According to Gyeongju City, apart from the 357-space parking lot operated by Korail Networks, a public parking lot with a total of 230 spaces has been operated near the Singyeongju Station plaza since November 2012 to alleviate parking difficulties near the station.

However, due to the increase in KTX Singyeongju Station users, the parking lot is insufficient, causing great inconvenience to users, making the additional creation of parking lots urgent.

Before the COVID-19 situation, the average daily number of users in 2019, including SRT, was 5,786 and has been increasing every year. In 2017, it was 4,940, and in 2018, 5,162.

Due to these circumstances, on the side roads around KTX Singyeongju Station and the access roads to nearby villages, approximately dozens of illegally parked vehicles on weekdays and about 100 on weekends cause great inconvenience not only to users but also to residents.

A Gyeongju City official explained, "The newly expanded public parking lot will prioritize accessibility to Singyeongju Station, and an additional passage directly connecting to the existing station plaza will be created. Considering that the entrance and exit of the existing public parking lot were far from the intersection, causing inconvenience to users, a new entrance and exit will be made closer to the intersection."

Meanwhile, the usage fee for the public parking lot, which will be managed by the Gyeongju City Facilities Management Corporation, is much cheaper than the existing Korail-operated parking lot.

The Korail-operated parking lot charges a maximum daily fee of 13,000 KRW, 1,000 KRW for the first 30 minutes, and 300 KRW per 10 minutes, whereas the expanded Singyeongju Station public parking lot charges the same maximum daily fee of 5,000 KRW as the existing parking lot, free for up to 10 minutes, and 500 KRW per 30 minutes.

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