Suncheon-si Ranks First in Jeonnam in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's 'Traffic Culture Index Evaluation'

The Result of High-Level Civic Awareness in a Traffic Safety Cultural City

[Suncheon=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City in Jeollanam-do announced on the 7th that it ranked first in Jeollanam-do in last year's 'Traffic Culture Index Evaluation' conducted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

The Traffic Culture Index is an index created by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport by dividing 229 basic local governments nationwide into four groups based on population, investigating the public's traffic safety awareness and cultural level, and quantifying 18 items through observation, surveys, and literature review in three areas: driving behavior, pedestrian behavior, and traffic safety. It evaluates the traffic safety status, traffic accident occurrence rate, and traffic safety efforts of each local government.

The city was included in the group of 49 local governments with a population under 300,000 for this evaluation and received an excellent A grade in driving behavior such as turn signal usage rate, securing traffic safety expertise in local governments, and efforts to secure traffic safety budgets, achieving 3rd place nationwide and 1st place in Jeollanam-do.

Last year, the city invested 6.2 billion KRW to create a safe traffic environment by implementing projects such as lane painting throughout the city, installation and maintenance of traffic safety facilities, improvement of urban traffic systems, enhancement of ITS traffic information services, maintenance of safety facilities in child protection zones, establishment of advanced intelligent transportation systems, and installation and maintenance of citizen safety road surveillance CCTV and traffic signal systems.

A traffic department official said, "This excellent evaluation result is the outcome of mature citizen awareness and the city's traffic safety efforts," adding, "We will continue to lead the construction of Suncheon as a safe and livable traffic safety culture city by spreading citizen awareness for traffic facility improvement and the establishment of a safe traffic culture."

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