Netizens question strict list of banned vehicles on new Suhua Highway section
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/22
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Just as first section of the improved Suhua Highway (蘇花公路
(Image from @Suhuahighway)
台) is poised to open before Lunar New Year, a photo showing the extensive list of vehicle types that are banned from using the new highway has already generated a backlash among Taiwanese netizens.
A photo of a new sign, posted on Jan. 18 on the Facebook group Suhua Highway, shows that delivery trucks, buses, bicycles, motorcycles, and scooter all all banned from entering the new stretch of highway, with only sedan cars apparently allowed to pass. After listing all the banned vehicle, the person posting the image then asks incredulously, “but pedestrians are actually not banned from walking on the highway?”
The old stretch of Suhua Highway very dangerous, thus the proposal to build the new section was put forth the Facebook user adds,”Now the highway bureau says that the new Suhua Highway is too dangerous, so need to go back to the safe old Suhua Highway.” He then asks, “if the new highway is much more dangerous than the old one, what was the point of it all?” [FULL STORY]