Road Cut Off – Tribesmen Exert Themselves To Save the Situation

In Alishan’sLaLauya village, 12 families rely on a suspension bridge to get to and from home.  With severe damage to roads in the farming district, locals were left no option but to take charge of the situation and repair the bridge. As early as 1996, the bridge sustained damage with Typhoon Herb, and at that time plans were put in place to rebuild the suspension bridge.  After 13 years of continual repairs and waiting, a plan to rebuild the bridge was finally passed, but to everyone’s disappointment Typhoon Morokot struck and swept the bridge away.  With such a long and tedious evaluation and planning process, including the design procedure with initial, mid and end term reports, villagers couldn’t help from asking whether it was going to take another 13 years to get a new bridge built.  Worried that they would be unable to transport their agricultural produce to the markets on time, locals decided to take the initiative and build a makeshift road to transport their goods. 

Road Cut Off – Tribesmen Exert Themselves To Save the Situation (by CJ Niahosa)
URL: http://www.peopo.org/news/56771

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進出路不通 族人自力救濟 ( by公民記者 鄒公(niahosa )
URL: http://www.peopo.org/news/56771

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阿里山相拉拉吾雅部落，有十二戶居民進出僅靠一座吊橋，區內農路嚴重受損，族人無語問蒼天，只好自己動手修路。早在民國85年賀伯颱風時這座橋就受損，那時就已規劃重建，但修又修等又等，歷時十三年好不容易準備發包，不料莫拉克颱風又把橋帶走。冗長的評估規劃設計期初、期中、期末報告，族人不禁要問；是不是又要等十三年？！而季節性農產的各類筍期，族人農民要採收就自求多福，自己搞定運輸工具。