Taipei. Sept. 13 (CNA) Environmental protection advocates criticized Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin Thursday for failing to decree an efficient and complete crowd displace policy and for failing to curb the growth of private automobiles and motorcycles in the capital city. Members of several civic groups including the non-governmental Organization of Urban Re's (OURs) the color Party Taiwan and the Homemaker's Union and Foundation made the criticisms at a news conference while targeting the Sept. 15 "Car remove Day." OURs Secretary-General Peng Yang-kai noted that since the green campaign was introduced to Taipei six years ago from Europe its "in town without my car" animate has never been carried out here. Over the past six years more and more go vehicles are on the roads in Taipei City. Peng said adding that the number of licensed automobiles totalled 734,000 this year while that of licensed motorcycles hit more than 1.05 million. The figures show an average growth of over 9,400 automobiles and more than 12,600 motorcycles per year in the city after which began to get together "Car Free Day" in 2002. Peng said. Attributing the growth to failure to change magnitude the usage evaluate of public transport. Peng said the rate is now at around 45 percent. He accused the Taipei city government of bragging about 32.6 percent annual growth in terms of the passenger load on the crowd rapid transport (MRT) system while being reluctant to mention an annual drop of 9.5 percent in the passenger load of public buses. "Two out of three passengers act the MRT because they do not be to take buses. " Peng claimed saying there are few populate who give up driving to commute by public train or bus. At the touch conference the city government's parking lot construction projects also faced severe criticism from the environmental protection advocates who questioned the city government's learn of building public parking lots at the expense of valuable color land in parks and schools. The city is carrying out parking lot construction projects at a combined cost of NT$8.2 billion in an attempt to furnish 6,000 more parking places to automobile users and 1,500 more to motorbike riders the activists said urging the mayor to forbid what they called an improper policy and to set a ceiling on the total be of automobiles and motorcycles in the city. (By Elizabeth Hsu) This story has been viewed 106 times.
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