The heavy snowfall that fell in Seoul and southern Gyeonggi on the night of yesterday (6th) caused a lot of congestion on the way to work this morning.
Citizens on their way to work more hurriedly than usual ran tortoises on snowy roads, and there were cases of lateness by citizens leaving their cars for worry about snow.
Mr. Bang, a 35-year-old office worker, complained this morning that it took more than an hour to travel from his house in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon to the general industrial complex in Dongtan, Hwaseong, where his company is located.
Mr. Bang said, “I wondered if it could be this way even if the snow removal work was not done,” he said. “There was too much snow on the road, so if I step on the accelerator pedal, the car would slip, so I had to slow down 20 to 30 kilometers per hour.”
Mo (55) Kim, who goes to Ansan using Suin Industrial Road from Jangan-gu, Suwon-si, said, “I haven’t been able to get on the industrial road for 40 minutes since I left my house.” “It took a lot of time to travel ∼8 km,” he complained.
Citizens who chose public transportation for their cars were no different.
This is because even wide-area buses were tied up on the road and couldn’t get stuck.
Mr. Jeong, 33, who goes from Giheung-gu, Yongin-si to the Suwon Gwanggyo Knowledge Industry Center, said, “I got on the bus an hour earlier than usual, but the car was blocked in the snow, so it would be faster to walk.” “I think I’ll be late to the company for about an hour. I made a phone call.”
Park Mo (28), an office worker who works for a company located in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon-si from Sangnok-gu, Ansan-si, said that it took almost three hours to get to the company, which usually takes about an hour by bus.
Park said, “The bus couldn’t move on the road because of the traffic jam,” and “I thought I might be late, so I got off near Suwon Station and tried to take a taxi, but I had a hard time not getting a taxi.”
Complaints arising from the riots at work are coming up one after another on the Internet and on social media.
In the Instagram account of Yeom Tae-young, Suwon Market, “I couldn’t move for an hour because the snow was still on Yeongtong-daero. Is it correct?”, “I couldn’t get out of 10 minutes for an hour, but where did I remove it?” The criticism of netizens continued.
In addition, there have been witnesses that a vehicle slipped in snow and caused a contact accident, or that a vehicle was spinning due to being unable to climb a hill.
Gyeonggi Province said that from yesterday afternoon when the snow started to present, it has put 5,329 public officials and 2,135 equipment such as snow removal vehicles in 31 cities and counties to perform snow removal.
15,000 tons of snow removal agent, such as calcium chloride, were sprayed all over the major roads in Tokyo.
However, many local government officials explained that there was more snow than the Meteorological Agency predicted, and this morning, as the temperature dropped sharply, the effect of the snow removal operation did not appear properly.
An official from Suwon City said, “The sprayed calcium chloride melts in the snow only when it reaches minus 7-8 degrees Celsius, but there was a place where the snow on the road was not melted as the morning temperature fell below -15 degrees Celsius.” If it does, it will work.”
On the other hand, the amount of snowfall in the province was 16.2 cm in Gwangju, Gwacheon, 14.6 cm in Gwacheon, 14.6 cm in Seongnam, 12.3 cm in Yongin, 11.1 cm in Osan, and 10.6 cm in Suwon.
Currently, the road control section in the province is one of the three-way intersection of the substation in Sanseong-dong, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si-Namhansanseong-ro (3.2km).
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