HOLIDAY PROJECT: The Public Works Department had set a 168-hour schedule, before reducing it to 94 hours, but work crews managed to shave seven more hours off
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 28, 2020
By: Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
The dismantlement of the Chongqing S Road (重慶南路) overpass, which served as an access ramp
Taipei Deputy Mayor Pong Cheng-sheng speaks yesterday morning at a ceremony marking completion of the dismantlement of the Chongqing S Road overpass and Ziqiang Market and the reopening of the area to traffic.
Photo: Yang Hsin-hui, Taipei Times
The overpass, which connected to Heping W Road (和平西路), and the Ziqiang Market (自強市場) under the overpass, were built in 1972.
However, given the wear and tear on the overpass and the shuttering of most of the stores in the market, which had mainly sold secondhand household appliances and furniture, the Taipei City Government announced last year that the overpass would be torn down during this year’s Lunar New Year holiday.
The New Construction Office said removing the overpass is the first step of a project to revive Zhongzheng (中正) and Wanhua (萬華) districts, the Taipei Public Works Department’s New Construction Office said. [FULL STORY]
