Gyeongbuk Gimcheon-si Secures National Funding for Preliminary Design of Yangcheon~Daehang Bypass Road

Expected View of the National Road Bypass in Gimcheon-si, Gyeongbuk.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yeo Jong-gu] The national budget of 200 million KRW for the preliminary design service of the last section of the Gyeongbuk Gimcheon National Road Bypass, the ‘Yangcheon~Daehang National Road Bypass Project,’ has been confirmed.

The route between Yangcheon and Daehang was the only section among the local metropolitan transportation network projects that had not yet been implemented.

Although there were difficulties in opening the route due to lack of economic feasibility initially, it was included in the five-year plan for national and local road construction, securing the budget to start the design.

The Gimcheon Yangcheon-Daehang National Road Bypass to be implemented in the future plans to build a new 2-lane road with a total length of 7.02 km, including 4 lanes, with a total project cost of 107.3 billion KRW.

Kim Chung-seop, Mayor of Gimcheon, said, “We will do our best to build transportation convenience infrastructure in cooperation with local political circles to start the project early.”

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