Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/21
By: Chen Wei-ting and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, June 21 (CNA) Traffic on several sections of three national freeways in Taiwan was heavily 
congested on Sunday, the last of the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday, before easing up after 8 p.m., National Freeway Bureau officials said.
Northbound traffic on the No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5 national freeways began slowing down at around noontime, the officials said, and several accidents occurred in the afternoon when much of Taiwan was pummeled by heavy downpours.
Heavy car flows and the accidents caused traffic jam on many sections of the freeways, the officials said.
The jammed sections included the Taipei-Wuku southbound lanes, the Xiluo-Puyan northbound lanes, the Taichung-Fengyuan section, the Touwu-Hsinchu section, and the Hsinchu-Hukou section in National Freeway No. 1, according to the bureau. [FULL STORY]
