Yongin Mayor Lee Sang-il: "Urgent Need for Preliminary Feasibility Study Exemption on National Route 45 Expansion Project"

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Choi Ki-ho] On the 8th, Yongin Special City Mayor Lee Sang-il requested that Park Chun-seop, Senior Secretary for Economic Affairs, seriously review the government's exemption from preliminary feasibility study for the early expansion of National Route 45, the main arterial road of the advanced system semiconductor national complex being developed in Idong and Namsa-eup of Cheoin-gu.

Mayor Lee said on that day, "For the national complex development project to proceed smoothly, the expansion of National Route 45, a major transit route for advanced IT talent, materials, and logistics, is essential," and sent a letter to Senior Secretary Park stating, "To expand National Route 45 by 2030, before Samsung Electronics' first fab in the national complex begins operation, exemption from preliminary feasibility study is urgently needed."

In the letter, Mayor Lee stated, "National Route 45 is the central axis running through the national complex and a major road of the national complex along with the semiconductor expressway to be constructed in the future," and added, "If this road, which is currently experiencing severe traffic congestion, is not expanded promptly, traffic congestion will become even more severe."

In November of last year, the government announced that it would construct a semiconductor-specialized new city with 16,000 households on 690,000 pyeong in Idong-eup as a satellite city where IT talent working at the national complex would settle, and established a policy of "transportation first, settlement later" to preemptively expand transportation infrastructure.

Mayor Lee's vision is that to ensure the national complex development project succeeds in maintaining South Korea's semiconductor industry's technological superiority, optimal transportation systems must be established around the national complex and new city to provide transportation convenience to semiconductor talent and enable smooth logistics circulation.

In the letter, Mayor Lee stated, "President Yoon Suk Yeol chaired the 23rd civil service discussion meeting in Yongin City on the 25th of last month and announced the government's position to promptly promote the National Route 45 expansion project," and added, "Since the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport also believes that exemption from preliminary feasibility study for the National Route 45 expansion project is necessary, I respectfully request that the Presidential Office show great interest and support in the Ministry of Strategy and Finance's review of the preliminary feasibility study exemption for the timely expansion of National Route 45."