Uiwang City Opens Uiwang Baekun Valley Uil Road

[Suwon Ilbo=Correspondent Seo Dong-young] Uiwang City (Mayor Kim Sang-don) held an opening ceremony for Uiwang Baekun Valley Uil Road in front of Baekun Tunnel on the 20th.

Approximately 300 people attended, including Mayor Kim Sang-don of Uiwang City, National Assemblyman Shin Chang-hyun, Chairman Yun Mi-geun of the City Council, city and provincial council members, officials and citizens.

The Uil Road expansion and development project, promoted as part of the traffic measures for the Baekun Valley urban development project, is an urban planning road extending 1.84 km from Baekun Valley to Anyang Pangyo Road, with a width of 17.25~28m and including a 384m tunnel.

Uiwang Baekun Project Finance Investment Corporation invested 55.9 billion won, and the road opened approximately 2 years and 4 months after groundbreaking in April 2017. Uil Road was expanded from the existing 2 lanes to 4~6 lanes, and the new Baekun Tunnel was opened.

The city expects that the expansion of Uil Road will significantly reduce travel time toward Seongnam Pangyo, Anyang, and Gwacheon City. Accessibility to the Uiwang Lotte Shopping Mall, which will open in the Baekun Valley area in December next year, is also expected to improve.

Mayor Kim Sang-don stated, "With the opening of Uil Road, we have improved the traffic system in the Baekun Valley area and can now provide residents with a more comfortable traffic environment."