Su’ao – Dong’ao section of the Suhua Highway will open before Lunar New Year
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/19
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The first section of the improved Suhua Highway (蘇花公路台)
New section of Suhua Highway. (By Central News Agency)
is expected to open before Lunar New Year, cutting down travel time by up to 20 minutes, according to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC).
The new 9.7-kilometer section of the Suhua Highway set to open runs from Suao (蘇澳) in Yilan County to Dongao (東澳) in Hualien County and is known as the Su’ao – Dong’ao section.
The second new section of the highway will run from Nanao (南澳) and Heping (和平) townships of Yilan County. While third section will run between Heping and Dacingshuei (大清水) in Hualien County.
The remaining two sections are slated to be completed by the end of next year (2019) and the target for the official opening is set for just before the Lunar New Year of 2020. Once all three sections are completed, the combined new stretch of highway will be 38.8 kilometers in length. [FULL STORY]