The Great Stink of Fanzigou Park

Fanzigou Park is located beside the Jiaxiong Luqiao Bridge. Initially, locals were extremely hopeful about the new park, which promised them the opportunity to live a greener lifestyle. However, over time problem after problem began to arise. Liucuo Park had similar problems with brickwork and as a result of moss growing on the brickwork pathways some residents slipped and fell. Additionally, the dilapidated and rotten wooden decking looks perilous. The park’s transformation was finished in 2008, and in 2009 refurbishing work cost around 10 million NTD. However, after the passing of an application to the Ministry of Interior from City Government in September of 2009, at the beginning of 2010 the park was once more fenced off for “reconstruction” – in a further 30 million NTD makeover. The children’s playground as well as exercise equipment suddenly vanished and workers began laying new brick paving to replace and discard the only recently laid, now ‘old’ paving. The reason given was that a building application for an overhead walkway over Highway 1 had been passed. Locals were extremely confused and asked why the park had to be closed ahead of building work on the overhead walkway? “Once the budget has been set and designated time arrived at, even if it is considered as waste, it has to be used up…whether the money is allocated to the correct area or will take many years to pay off is of no concern”, said Chiayi City Government Economic Affairs Bureau. Currently, as a direct result of building works the central drain near Boai Rd. is giving off a terrible stench. The government department responsible for the work promised to fix the problem by the end of May, but this means locals will have to put up with the rancid odor for another 20 days. This rancid smell is certainly not helping Fanzigou Park’s ecological reputation and is a terrible inconvenience to local residents – it is sincerely hoped that the government understands just how important and significant this problem has become.

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The Great Stink of Fanzigou Park (by CJ ellenlee)
URL: https://www.peopo.org/news/95082

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番仔溝公園傳惡臭-嘉義市公園何其多 ( ellenlee )

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