Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/26
By: Wang Shu-fen, Wu Che-hao and Ko Lin

Photo courtesy of the the Directorate General of Highways[/caption] Taipei, Dec. 26 (CNA) The final section of Provincial Highway No. 61, from Fangyuan to Dacheng in Changhua County will open for traffic Friday, marking the completion of the highway.

Also known as the West Coast Expressway, the 291.509-kilometer highway stretches from Bali in New Taipei to Shifen in Tainan, with construction starting in 1992.

The road has been opened to traffic in sections over the past 28 years, with the Fangyuan-Dacheng section being the last one, marking the completion of the nation's third north-south highway serving western Taiwan, after National Freeways No. 1 and No. 3.

[Video by ROADMAN's YouTube channel.]

However, because the No. 61 expressway is toll-free, it has often been dubbed the "poor man's highway" by local motorists.    [FULL  STORY]