Public Institutions Implement Odd-Even Day Driving Rules and Reduced Elevator Operations

Suwon City has been implementing rigorous energy-saving measures since the 15th, including an odd-even day driving restriction for civil servants, reducing elevator operations by half, alternating floor closures, and shortening lighting hours.

The city is implementing an odd-even day driving restriction for all civil servants at city hall, district offices, and worksites.

Four elevator lines at the City Hall Annex are operating only two lines, with odd-numbered floors closed on odd-numbered days and even-numbered floors closed on even-numbered days. Additionally, street lights and nighttime landscape lighting at Hwaseong Haenggung Palace will implement alternating day closures and shortened lighting hours, and civil servants have been instructed to refrain from using air conditioning and other cooling systems.

On the 15th, the first day of the odd-even day driving restriction for civil servants, parking spaces on the B2 and B3 floors of the annex—which are reserved for monthly pass holders—showed 30-50% vacancy. The western parking lot also had approximately 40% of parking spaces empty, unlike usual days.

A toll collector at the western public parking lot at City Hall stated, "On the first day of implementing the odd-even system, civil servant vehicles decreased by nearly half compared to usual."

A city official said, "Every morning from 8 to 9 a.m., City Hall staff supervise compliance with the odd-even driving rule at the parking lot entrance."