Taiwan News
Date: 2016-08-26
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Chang Hsiu-hsiung, 74, has wiped clean 82,000 reflectors along highways in metropolitan Taipei, New Taipei and Taoyuan cities, including mountainous areas, in the past five years for free.

Chang said he is willing to do an almost full-time job of wiping reflectors clean for nothing because he had witnessed tragic traffic accidents. He began the self-motivated volunteer work five years ago after he retired.

But it is not totally for nothing as Chang will be given a special contribution award by the Directorate General of Highways (DGOH) in the Golden Road Awards ceremony on Aug. 30.

For the past five years, Chang went out for the cleaning work at 4 a.m. each working day and came home around noon. He has prepared a ladder and wiping cloth and taken note of the routes he has covered and the progress. He wiped clean all the reflectors on the routes for about a half year and then repeated the whole process all over again.     [FULL  STORY]