Gyeonggi Love Pyeongtaek Volunteer Group Conducts Taxi Disinfection Service

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] The Gyeonggi Love Pyeongtaek Volunteer Group conducted taxi disinfection service on the 4th to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

With 25 members participating, the service was carried out on approximately 150 taxis waiting at taxi stands at Pyeongtaek Station, Pyeongtaek West Station, and Pyeongtaek Terminal.

Park Gyeong-suk, chairperson of the Pyeongtaek Volunteer Group, stated, "We hope that through our small cleanliness volunteer work, citizens will not feel anxious and will use public transportation more frequently," and added, "We plan to continue disinfection by visiting key taxi waiting areas such as Seojung-ri Station and Songtan Station."

Mayor Jung Jang-seon said, "I sincerely appreciate you carrying out direct quarantine disinfection of public transportation," and added, "We will do our best in quarantine disinfection and support so that citizens can use public transportation with confidence."

Meanwhile, the city plans to provide spray disinfectants to individual taxi and corporate taxi companies until the end of the novel coronavirus crisis to enable taxis to conduct quarantine disinfection at garages and taxi waiting areas as needed.