A number of traffic control measures will be implemented for the cherry blossom season of Wuling Farm in Taichung’s mountainous Heping District which begins on Feb. 7, local police announced on Tuesday.
The daily number of visitors to the farm will be capped at 6,000 during the 22-day cherry blossom season, and they can only enter the farm run by the Veteran Affairs Council with a pass issued to those who have made a booking, according to the Taichung City Police Department’s Heping Precinct.
The passes are issued to tour groups, people who have booked accommodation on the farm, and individual visitors who have purchased bus tickets bundled with tickets to the farm, the police precinct said in a statement.
Road signs reminding visitors that a pass is required to enter the farm have been set up along Provincial Highway No. 7 from south of the 95-km mark in Yilan County to the starting point of Provincial Highway No. 7A, then further south to the 74-km mark of the No. 7A highway, according to the police.
A checkpoint manned by Wuling Farm workers will be set up at the entrance of Wuling Road, which is near the 53.8-km mark on Provincial Highway No. 7A, to only allow vehicles with the pass to proceed further to the farm, the police said.
Visitors are encouraged to use public transport, but if they want to drive there themselves, drivers should make sure their tank is full and turn on their car’s headlights, since there is only one lane in each direction on the highways in the mountains, the police added.
Blooming cherry trees have been spotted since mid-December in the mountains in central Taiwan, and across Taiwan in January, including Taoyuan District in Kaohsiung, and several locations in Greater Taipei.
Source: Focus Taiwan News Channel