Parents Left Stunned by Design of School Pathway|台中頭家國小新闢道路完工 設計家長傻眼

The pick-up area of Taichung's Toujia Elementary School has drawn criticism. A 100-meter-long pathway was built to facilitate the picking up and dropping off of students but the S-curve design seems to defeat its purpose.


The curvature of this pathway makes it look like this vehicle is taking the s-curve portion of the driving license road test.

This is the pathway located behind Taichung's Toujia Elementary School, which has 2,000 teachers and students. It is 100 meters long, and was meant to make it easier for parents to drop off and pick up their children and reduce the amount of time that students spend walking on roads. Parents were left dumbfounded by the design.

I was stunned. (Why?) It was built on top of a gutter, and you could have built it straight from over here. I don't know why they designed it like this.

The s-shaped pathway has two sharp bends, and gets congested during pickup and drop-off hours. Parents have found they still need to park next to the main road and wait for their children to come out. This pathway cost NT$20 million to construct, which came out of the Taichung City Government's second reserve fund.

This will definitely cause collisions. Look at it, you'll have to brake and then slowly drive on, and then you'll hit here. Parents won't be able to drive safely to bring their children. They'll have to walk.

The city's Construction Bureau says the pathway was designed this way because of expropriation issues. It says parts of the pathway and the positioning of streetlights are adjustable.

There were some limiting conditions in terms of topography, and it wasn't originally designed to be a road open to traffic. We have already asked the designers and manufacturers to make improvements to the curved sections, which may cause traffic issues.

This pathway was built on top of an existing irrigation canal, and residents have concerns about its flood-prevention function. The Construction Bureau says the project passed a Water Resources Bureau assessment, so there should be no issues.



一台車寬的路幅，車子開進這條路，真的像是在S型考駕照。

台中市潭子區頭家國小有兩千名師生，後門新開了一條100公尺長的道路，原本是要方便家長接送，減少學童在馬路上走的危險，但道路完工後卻讓家長更傻眼。

台中市頭家國小前家長會長 林泳騌表示：「滿傻眼的！（怎麼說？) 對啊，像這邊你可以直接，因為你是水溝上面加蓋，蓋的嘛！你可以直接從這邊，一直…就直的可以出去就對了，不知道為什麼會設計這個樣子？」

S型的道路，進出都有兩個大死角，放學時間還會造成壅塞，結果家長還是必需停車在大馬路邊，等孩子走出來。地方上質疑，這條路動用了台中市政府第二預備金兩千萬，怎麼會設計成這樣？

民進黨台中市議員 蕭隆澤表示：「這個絕對會撞到，你看一看嘛，你來到這裡，根本要煞車後，慢慢開下來，就會撞到這裡，無法好好讓家長開車送孩子進來，要用走的。」

台中市建設局長回應，道路設計成S型，主要是卡在地主土地徵收問題，但細部的道路及路燈退縮仍可調整。

台中市建設局長 陳大田表示：「地理上面的一些限制跟條件，再加上，它原本不是一個計劃通行的道路，那針對說，現在在視角轉彎區，比較容易造成，這個通行不良的部分。那現在已經責成設計單位跟廠商，在改善當中。」

由於這條路是利用既有水利溝渠加蓋，現場也有民眾發現河川斷面縮減的隱憂，但台中市建設局強調，已經過水利局專業評估，也請民眾放心。