By Shelley Shan / Staff reporterThe Freeway Bureau has finished a feasibility study for extending the freeway overpass connecting New Taipei City’s Wugu District (五股) and Taoyuan’s Yangmei District (楊梅) to Miaoli County. The extension of the overpass, which is alongside the National Sun Yat-sen Freeway (National Freeway No. If the overpass extension was built from Yangmei to Toufen City (頭份) in Miaoli, an estimated 30 percent of traffic from Freeway No. The study showed that the proposed overpass extension from Yangmei to Miaoli would be about 39km long, with the estimated construction cost reaching NT$75 billion (US$2.46 billion), and the self-liquidation ratio of the project would be 7.73 percent. The section between Hsinchu and Toufen would be constructed by expanding the lanes on Freeway No.
