‘SAFE AND COMFORTABLE’: With the improvement projects completed, Highway No. 9 became the nation’s second-longest highway, as certain parts were bypassed
Taipei Timeshttp://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/12/23/2003728027
Date: Dec 23, 2019
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
The last stretch of the widened South Link Highway (南迴公路) is to open for traffic today after successive

Photo: Huang Ming-tang, Taipei Times
An opening ceremony is to be held in Taitung in the morning and drivers can start accessing the highway in the afternoon, said the Directorate-General of Highways, which is in charge of the project.
The South Link Highway, which is part of Highway No. 9, connects Taitung and Pingtung, and has been described as one of the nation’s most beautiful highways, the agency said.
However, natural disasters often triggered landslides and disrupted traffic on the highway, which in 2011 prompted the agency to increase the number of lanes to improve driving safety, it said.
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