Provincial Highway 24 is a
Taiwanese highway that started from
Pingtung City
Pingtung City (Paiwan language, Taiwanese: ; ; Hokkien Pe̍h-ōe-jī, POJ: ''Pîn-tong-chhī'') is a county-administered city and the county seat of Pingtung County, Taiwan.
History
The area of modern-day Pingtung City was originally a village ...
and ended in
Wutai. The entire highway is within
Pingtung County
Pingtung () is a County (Taiwan), county located in southern Taiwan. It has a warm tropical monsoon climate and is known for its agriculture and tourism. Kenting National Park, Taiwan's oldest national park, is located in the county. The county ...
. The highway is also known as Wutai Highway (霧台公路). The route length is and connects the population centers in Pingtung to the mountainous aboriginal townships of
Sandimen
Sandimen Township is a mountain indigenous township in Pingtung County, Taiwan Province, Republic of China. The population of the township consists mainly of the Paiwan people with a substantial Rukai minority.
Names
Ethnic Chinese settlers ...
and Wutai.
Route description
The highway begins at downtown Pingtung City at the intersection with
Highway 3
The following highways are numbered 3, H-3, PRI-3, AH3, E03 and R3. For roads numbered A3, see A3 roads. For roads numbered M3, see M3 (disambiguation)#Roads, M3. For roads numbered N3, see N3 (disambiguation)#Roads, N3. For roads numbered 3A, see ...
. The highway continues eastbound towards
Changzhi
Changzhi ( zh, s=长治) is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of Shanxi Province, China, bordering the provinces of Hebei and Henan to the northeast and east, respectively. Historically, the city was one of the 36 administrative areas ( ...
, where it meets
Freeway 3. The road continues toward the mountains, passing through
Yanpu,
Neipu
Neipu Township is a rural township in Pingtung County, Taiwan.
Geography
* Area:
* Population: 52,504 (February 2024)
Administrative divisions
The township comprises 23 villages: Ailiao, Daxin, Fengtian, Futian, Hexing, Jianxing, Laobei, L ...
, Sandimen, and ends at Wutai. A stretch of the highway in Wutai was severely damaged by
Typhoon Morakot
Typhoon Morakot, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Kiko, was the wettest and deadliest typhoon to impact Taiwan in recorded history. The eighth named storm and fourth typhoon of the 2009 Pacific typhoon season, Morakot wrought catastrophic d ...
in 2009 and was closed to traffic ever since.
The highway was known as Highway 22 until 1993, when it was assigned its current number. The initial plan was to extend the highway from Wutai to Chihpen in
Beinan, Taitung
Beinan Township or Peinan Township () is a Township (Taiwan), rural township in Taitung County, Taiwan. It has a population of 16,798 as of February 2023. It is home to the Puyuma people, Puyuma and Rukai people, Rukai peoples.
Name
This southea ...
, but was formally abandoned in 2011 due to environmental concerns.
See also
*
Highway system in Taiwan
Highways in Taiwan are classified into five types:
The system does not apply to other parts of Taiwan, namely Kinmen and Lienchiang counties, and islands in the South China Sea.
Expressways in Taiwan may be controlled-access highways similar ...
References
External links
Highways in Taiwan
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