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Comprehensive Survey Conducted on 128 Districts
Customized Traffic Improvement Plans Developed for Each District

The government will conduct a comprehensive survey of areas with traffic inconvenience and prepare countermeasures such as deploying charter buses for commuting.

The Metropolitan Transport Commission under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 21st that it will conduct a comprehensive survey (July to August) of the metropolitan transport improvement plans for all 128 districts established so far and prepare improvement measures for areas with traffic inconvenience.

Through on-site inspections of major project districts such as second-phase new towns, the Commission identified areas where traffic congestion occurs in the early to mid stages of occupancy due to mismatches between the timing of occupancy and the expansion of metropolitan transport facilities, or where traffic problems persist even after improvement measures have been completed.

In the case of the Geomdan district in Incheon, traffic volume is expected to increase significantly with about 8,700 households moving in during the second half of this year and about 20,000 households by the end of 2022, but improvement projects are scheduled to be completed sequentially from the end of 2023.

In Hwaseong Dongtan 2 district, about 80% (90,000 households) have moved in since the first occupancy in 2015, but the execution rate of improvement measures is about 42%.

The Gimpo Hangang district (improvement measures completed in 2019) is experiencing severe traffic inconvenience such as congestion on the Gimpo Gold Line due to increased traffic demand from nearby small-scale adjacent developments.

Accordingly, the Commission plans to conduct a full analysis of occupancy status and implementation status of improvement measures for all 128 districts through this comprehensive survey, identify problematic districts, and prepare individual supplementary measures to be announced sequentially from September.

Districts where improvement measures are underway will be designated as special measure districts, and measures to alleviate traffic inconvenience such as establishing new metropolitan buses, deploying charter buses for commuting, and improving transfer convenience will be prepared.

For districts where improvement measures have been completed but traffic inconvenience persists, separate short-term traffic measures such as reorganizing metropolitan bus operations and introducing demand-responsive transport will be prepared.

In addition, areas with habitual traffic congestion on major railway networks and arterial roads will be designated as metropolitan transport axes, and comprehensive traffic measures will be established.

Furthermore, for districts such as third-phase new towns where occupancy has not yet started and there is insufficient linkage with occupancy plans, the improvement measures will be adjusted to align project periods with each occupancy phase. To this end, the Commission will form a task force (T/F) for improvement measures, assign dedicated managers for each problematic district, and conduct joint inspections with local governments, establish hotlines (between the Commission, local governments, and project implementers), to intensively monitor and manage improvement measures, identify issues early, and prepare countermeasures.

Gil Byung-woo, Director of the Metropolitan Transport Policy Bureau of the Commission, said, "Considering that many citizens are struggling with long-distance commuting, we will promptly prepare supplementary traffic measures and build a fast and convenient metropolitan transport system that citizens can feel."

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