"Please Install an Escalator at Mapo Station Exit 4"... Mapo-gu Leads 'Feasibility Study'

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Exit 4, Mapo Station, Seoul Subway Line 5

“Please install an escalator at Exit 4 of Mapo Station.”

The procedure to install an escalator at Exit 4 of Mapo Station, a long-standing wish of residents around Mapo Station for several years, is expected to take its first step this year.

Mapo Station (Line 5) is used by nearly 30,000 citizens daily on average, but there has been no escalator at Exit 4, causing difficulties for transportation-vulnerable groups such as the disabled, pregnant women, and the elderly.

To improve this, Mapo-gu (Mayor Park Gang-su) repeatedly requested Seoul City and Seoul Metro to review the installation of an escalator at Mapo Station. As a result, 40 million KRW was secured in this year’s Seoul City budget for the “Basic Planning Service Fee for Escalator Installation at Mapo Station.”

The “Basic Planning Service for Escalator Installation at Mapo Station” is a preliminary procedure to verify the feasibility of installing an escalator at Mapo Station, which Seoul Metro plans to start in March.

If the investigation concludes that escalator installation is feasible, basic and detailed design services will be carried out based on this. Once the design is completed, Seoul Metro will secure the Seoul City budget and proceed with the full-scale escalator installation construction.

A district official said, “There have been continuous requests from residents to install an escalator at Exit 4 of Mapo Station,” adding, “Once the escalator is installed, not only transportation-vulnerable groups but all citizens using Mapo Station will be able to move more safely and conveniently.”

The district plans to actively cooperate with Seoul City and related organizations to ensure smooth and prompt project progress.

Park Gang-su, Mayor of Mapo-gu, said, “I feel a great sense of accomplishment as the long-standing wish of residents using Exit 4 of Mapo Station is opening a new chapter with the start of the feasibility study this year,” and added, “I express my gratitude to the related organizations that have actively listened to resolve residents’ inconveniences, and I will continue to do my best to make Mapo a better place to live by closely examining and improving every corner of the region.”

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