Mayor Jeong Deok-yeong vows to expand truck parking infrastructure evenly across all districts
The city of Yangju is moving ahead with a project to build freight truck parking lots across its districts, aiming to curb illegal overnight parking and improve public safety.
Mayor Jeong Deok-yeong visited three candidate sites on Tuesday, including the area around 668 Bongyang-dong, to inspect potential locations for the parking facilities and review the project's progress and future plans.
The site visits were organized to assess the feasibility of the district-by-district freight parking project and to confirm how each parcel of land could be used, with cooperation among relevant city departments.
The project is being driven through cross-departmental collaboration, with the transportation and construction divisions jointly identifying candidate sites and reviewing implementation plans beyond their usual separate mandates.
The Bongyang-dong site — a roughly 23,000-square-meter service road near the Yangju-Paju section of the Seoul Metropolitan Ring Expressway — is considered a strong candidate. The city said its proximity to Okjeong new town, logistics centers and the Hoam interchange would make it highly accessible for freight trucks.
Beyond the Bongyang-dong site, the city is reviewing additional candidates based on local conditions in each district. It plans to identify further usable public land — including idle military sites — and expand freight parking facilities in phases.
"Building freight truck parking lots is a necessary project to reduce the inconvenience caused by illegal overnight parking and to create a safe and pleasant living environment," Mayor Jeong said. "We will continue to strengthen inter-departmental cooperation, actively uncover usable spaces throughout the city, and expand truck parking infrastructure in a balanced way across all districts."
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