Hsinchu City brightens parks and public spaces with upgrades

Hsinchu City is enhancing its public spaces with recent upgrades to four key areas, aiming to improve recreational and community facilities for residents. The improvements include adding night lighting to Fenghuolun Park in the Xiangshan District, installing handrails on a spiral staircase at the First Pavilion of Shisinian Mountain, adding pull-up bars and improving ground surfaces at Minxiang Park, and fitting metal handrails to stone benches near the Jinya Community Activity Center.

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Parks and public spaces are important venues for citizens' daily recreation, exercise, and interaction. The city government is gradually improving lighting, safety facilities, and barrier-free and friendly details, so that people of all ages can use them with peace of mind.

Mayor Kao Hung-an highlighted the importance of parks and public spaces for daily leisure, exercise, and social interaction. She stated that the city government is progressively improving lighting, safety features, and accessibility to ensure these spaces are safe and convenient for people of all ages. The recent optimizations are designed to boost facility safety and convenience while fostering a more pleasant recreational environment.

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The four park and public space optimizations completed this time not only enhance facility safety and convenience but also further create a comfortable and pleasant recreational environment. In the future, we will continue to inventory various public facilities, conduct rolling reviews and promote improvements to build a more livable Hsinchu City.

Specifically addressing Fenghuolun Park's previous lack of adequate night lighting, the city completed improvements last month by installing energy-saving LED lights and trimming shrubs. This has effectively eliminated dark spots, enhancing safety for those walking or cycling at night. Additionally, handrails were added to the spiral staircase at Shisinian Mountain's First Pavilion between May and June to provide better support for the elderly and those with mobility issues, aligning with universal design principles.

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Regarding the insufficient night lighting problem at Fenghuolun Park in Xiangshan District, the city government completed lighting improvements last month, adding energy-saving LED lighting fixtures and trimming shrubs, effectively eliminating night lighting dead ends and improving the safety of people walking and cycling.

Minxiang Park now features two new sets of pull-up bars, along with optimized ground surfaces and protective facilities, offering a more diverse range of exercise options. The Jinya Community Activity Center saw metal handrails installed on its stone benches by early July, addressing issues of prolonged occupation and balancing the orderliness of public spaces with residents' recreational needs. The city plans to continue identifying and improving public facilities to make Hsinchu more livable.

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To create a friendly mountain climbing environment, the city government also completed the installation of handrails on the spiral staircase at the First Pavilion of Shisinian Mountain from May to June, providing firmer support for the elderly and people with mobility impairments, and implementing the concept of universal design.