The nation’s longest bike lane, measuring 87.5km, was inaugurated yesterday, connecting Yunlin County, Chiayi County and Tainan, as the Council of Agriculture pledged to plant 100,000 trees along the trail.
Constructed by the Irrigation Agency, the bike lane passes the Chianan Irrigation Canal (嘉南大圳) and parts of the Chianan Plain (嘉南平原), which is the center of Taiwan’s agriculture, council Minister Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) said at an inauguration ceremony in Tainan.
The bike lane begins in Yunlin’s Linnei Township (林內) and ends near the Wusanto Reservoir (烏山頭水庫) in Tainan’s Guantian District (官田).
President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) and other government officials
ROBUST SUPPORT: Data from the Tainan City Election Commission showed that residents cast about 160,000 to 180,000 more ‘no’ than ‘yes’ votes on each referendumBy Hung Jui-chin, Wang Shu-hsiu and William Hetherington / Staff reporters, with staff writer
Sixty-three percent of the votes cast by Tainan residents in the four referendums on Saturday were “no” votes the highest rate of any county or municipality.
Prior to the vote, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had urged people to vote “no” on all four referendum questions, while the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) urged people to vote “yes” on all four.
On Saturday, 41.08 percent of Tainan residents voted, according to data compiled by the Tainan City Election Commission, and they cast about 160,000 to 180,000 more “no” votes than “yes” votes on each referendum question.
In Tainan, 415,776 people voted “no” (64.13
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