Civic Boulevard () is a major

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located in

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. It was completed in 1997 as part of a multi-modal reconstruction project to improve transportation networks in congested central Taipei. It consists of a four- to six-lane elevated expressway and a surface-level frontage road system below the highway. The highway begins at the MacArthur Bridges in the east (connecting the Neihu district, and Keelung Road (in the Xinyi and Songshan districts), heads west, ending at an interchange with the Zhongxiao Bridge and the Huanhe Expressway. It provides direct access to

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, which is just south of Civic Boulevard. As part of a larger project to move

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tracks underground to reduce congestion at surface railroad crossings, Civic Boulevard was built in the old railroad right-of-way, providing a new east-west highway through Taipei. Other parts of this project included underground parking, underground shopping malls in the vicinity of

, provisions for utilities, and

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railroad tracks under conventional railroad tracks to Nangang.

Major interchanges

* Zhongxiao Bridge / Huanhe Expressway — half-interchange with surface arterial and direct-flyover ramps to Zhongxiao Bridge and Huanhe Expressway * Chongqing N. Road — half-interchange ** Provides access to

* Xinsheng S. Road (signed eastbound) / Jianguo S. Road (signed westbound) — full interchange ** Provides access to Xinsheng Road, Jinshan Road, Songjiang Road, Bade Road, and Jianguo Road * Guangfu S. Road — half-interchange * Keelung Road — ramps to surface arterial (to Xinyi and Songshan) and direct-flyover ramps to MacArthur Bridges (to Neihu)

Major interchanges

See also