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Taipei traffic
restrictions to be in place through Sunday
By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA
To accommodate the 13th presidential and
vice presidential inaugural ceremony on Sunday, traffic restrictions will be in
place in Taipei starting today.
A rehearsal for the inaugural ceremony will be held today at 11:30am at which a
salute battery, located on the southern plaza in front of the Presidential
Office, is being fired for one minute.
Traffic restrictions will also be in place from 11am to 12pm today in the
Jieshou Park area, including roads south of Ketagelan Boulevard, west of
Gongyuan Road, north of Gueiyang Street and east of Chongqing South Road.
The traffic restrictions on Gongyuan Road, Gueiyang Street, and Chongqing South
Road will regulate pedestrian use of sidewalks, though vehicles will still be
allowed to use the roads, Taipei Traffic Police Corps said.
Starting at midnight tonight and lasting until 12am on Monday, three levels of
traffic restriction will be in place around the Presidential Office, depending
on the size of the demonstrations the opposition plans to hold tomorrow and
Sunday, as well as inauguration events, Taipei Traffic Police Corps added.
Traffic restrictions will also be imposed from 12am on Sunday -until 12am on
Monday in the vicinity of the Grand Hotel in Taipei where a state banquet will
be held.
More information is available on the Taipei City Government Parking Management
Officeˇ¦s Web site.
Taipei Rapid Transit Corp said yesterday that Exit 1 at MRT National Taiwan
University Hospital station, Exit 7 at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall station,
and Exits 3 and 4 at Xiaonanmen station will be closed from 1am tomorrow until
noon on Sunday.
In related news, Sundayˇ¦s inauguration ceremony will be streamed live on the
Internet and there will be a Vietnamese translation of the radio broadcast for
the first time, according to the Presidential Office.
Internet users can watch the swearing-in ceremony and Maˇ¦s inaugural address
from 9am to 9:50am on various government Web sites in Mandarin and English, the
office said.
In addition, Radio Taiwan International will broadcast the ceremony in Japanese
and Vietnamese.
An online album was posted on Wednesday to provide information about President
Ma Ying-jeou (°¨^¤E), who will be sworn in for a second term, and Vice President
Wu Den-yih (§d´°¸q). The album includes details of the inauguration ceremony and
the guest list.
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