Jogyuil Jinju Mayor: "We Will Promote Projects That Make Citizens Happy"... Resolving Bicycle and Pedestrian Detour Inconveniences

Completion of Bicycle Path Connecting Innovation City to Munsan-eup

Mayor Jo Gyu-il Inspects the Bicycle Road Connecting Munsan-eup in the Innovation City [Image Source=Jinju City]

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Jinju Mayor Cho Gyu-il inspected the completion site of the Yeongcheon Bridge underpass bicycle and pedestrian shared road construction on the 15th.

Jinju City promoted the construction of a bicycle and pedestrian shared road under the Yeongcheon Bridge as part of a project to improve the connection of bicycle paths on the abandoned railway site from the Innovation City, investing a total project cost of 150 million KRW. Construction began in September and was completed this month.

This bicycle and pedestrian shared road project reflects the suggestions made by participants to Mayor Cho Gyu-il during the "Date with Citizens" event held with citizen garden plot renters in May.

Although Innovation City and Munsan-eup are geographically close, they have been separated by the Namhae Expressway, causing inconvenience as pedestrians and cyclists had to take a long detour.

Accordingly, the city expanded and paved the narrow, unpaved trail under the existing Namhae Expressway bridge to a width of 4 to 6 meters without separate land compensation, obtaining road occupancy permission from the Jinju branch of the Korea Expressway Corporation, thereby resolving the inconvenience of detours.

Mayor Cho Gyu-il said, "If we change our thinking slightly from the citizens' perspective, there are many cases where citizens can be made more convenient without spending a lot of money," and added, "We will continue to discover and promote projects that can alleviate residents' inconveniences from the citizens' standpoint."

Meanwhile, the city plans to continue discovering and promoting small-scale projects closely related to citizens' daily lives, such as opening a connecting road to improve access to the riverside bicycle path from Namgang Bridge toward Chungmugong-dong, and installing hump-type crosswalks that serve as speed bumps at Soksagyo in Geumsan-myeon, where there was no crosswalk.

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