Yongin Maebong Elementary School Commute Route Opens After 9 Months Through City Mediation

In January, officials attended a meeting held by Yongin City to discuss the opening of the Maebong Elementary School commuting route.

A school route connecting Maebong Elementary School in Sanghyeon-dong, Suji-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, and the nearby Seongbok Station Lotte Castle Classiel Apartments was closed for nine months and has recently been fully reopened.

Yongin City announced on the 21st that, through active mediation between the developer and the residents' representative council, the school route (100 meters long, 2 meters wide) connecting Maebong Elementary School and Seongbok Station Lotte Castle Classiel Apartments was fully opened on the 19th.

Until now, Maebong Elementary students had to take a detour of more than 1 km due to the lack of a school route. The influx of parent vehicles helping students commute frequently caused traffic congestion around the school and posed a high risk of safety accidents.

However, the school route had several issues. Accordingly, Yongin City led an agreement between the housing construction project developer and the residents' representative council to install the school route on the condition of using city-owned land (park site) included in the school route construction section.

But this time, disagreements arose between the developer and the residents' representative council regarding donation and acceptance or handover, forcing students to walk a long way to school again despite the completed school route being right in front of them.

Yongin City actively mediated through consultations among the developer, residents' representative council, Maebong Elementary School, and parents in January to ensure smooth handover, opening the school route that had been closed for the past nine months.

Lee Sang-il, Mayor of Yongin City, emphasized, "We will continue to exert the power of communicative administration so that citizens do not suffer inconvenience due to unreasonable situations."

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