Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/09/30
By: Wang Shu-fen and William Yen
Taipei, Sept. 30 (CNA) Freeway No. 5 is predicted to be heavily congested during
CNA file photo
certain periods of the National Day holiday long weekend, transportation authorities said Saturday.
The four-day holiday runs from Oct.7-10.
On Oct. 7 between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. and on Oct. 8 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., it will take 55 minutes instead of the usual 11 minutes on weekdays to travel from the Nangang System Interchange to Pinglin, according to the National Freeway Bureau’s website.
On Oct. 8-9 from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. and Oct. 10 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. it will take 111 minutes instead of the usual 15 minutes on weekdays, to travel between Toucheng (Jiaosi Bus Station) and Pinglin, the website added. [FULL STORY]