Daejeon City Promotes Hanbat-daero Expansion to Resolve 'Chronic Traffic Congestion'

Daejeon City is promoting the expansion construction of the section from World Cup Underpass to Oncheon 2-dong Community Center.

According to the city on the 3rd, the section from Hanbat-daero World Cup Underpass to Oncheon 2-dong Community Center is a point where vehicles from Noeun and Sejong directions and vehicles passing through Yuseong IC merge to enter the Dunsan direction, making it a representative chronic traffic congestion area in the region.

In particular, the number of lanes in the section decreases from 6 lanes to 5 lanes, which intensifies constant traffic congestion, and during rush hours, the road bottleneck causes severe vehicle congestion.

Because of this, not only do citizens experience inconvenience in commuting and suffer time and economic losses, but it can also create a negative urban image for visitors to Daejeon, leading to continuous calls for improvement.

Accordingly, the city plans to resolve the bottleneck by expanding the 350m bottleneck section from 5 lanes one-way to 6 lanes one-way and optimizing the signal cycle, with a total project cost of 1.3 billion KRW.

The expansion construction is scheduled to complete the detailed design this year and finish the road expansion by the first half of next year.

Earlier, in March, the city expressed its determination to improve chronic congestion areas within the region and establish Daejeon as a first-class transportation city during a city administration briefing.

Ko Hyun-deok, Director of the City Transportation and Construction Bureau, said, “Once the Hanbat-daero expansion construction is completed, the bottleneck will be partially resolved, and we expect the traffic flow in this section to improve.”

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