TRANSPORTATION: Travelers transferring from long-distance buses or trains to local buses during the holiday can transit for free if they transfer within 10 hours

Taipei Times
Date: Dec 12, 2018
By: Shelley Shan  /  Staff reporter

The Ministry of Transportation and Communications yesterday unveiled plans to facilitate transportation for travelers during the New Year holiday from Dec. 29.

Freeway toll-free hours during the four-day holiday are to be from midnight to 5am between Dec. 29 and Dec. 31, as well as from midnight to 10am on Jan. 1, the Freeway Bureau said, adding that it is the first time that toll-free hours on the first day of the New Year are to be extended to 10am.

“We’ve considered that a lot of people will engage in entertainment events on New Year’s Eve so we are giving motorists more toll-free hours on the final day of the holiday as an incentive to motivate them to travel early and avoid getting stuck in the northbound traffic in the afternoon,” Freeway Bureau Director-General Chao Hsin-hua (趙興華) said.

The change in toll-free hours is also meant to divert some northbound traffic that normally would occur on the second to last day of the holiday, Chao said.    [FULL  STORY]