Road name sign of Section 1 and 2, Civic Boulevard, Taipei 20060622

The Civic Boulevard (; also called 5th Blvd) is a 4 to 6-lane highway 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. The

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begins at the MacArthur Bridges in the east (connecting the

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district, and

Keelung Road Keelung Road (, also called 14th Ave or Jilong Road, referring to Keelung) is a major arterial and highway in Taipei, Taiwan, connecting the Neihu district from the MacAuthur 1st Bridge in the east with the Songshan, Xinyi, and Daan districts t ...

(in the Xinyi and Songshan districts), heads west to an interchange with the Zhongxiao Bridge and the HuanHe Expressway, providing direct access to

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, which is just south of the Civic Blvd. Expressway in the Zhongzheng district. Since Civic Blvd. is elevated, there is also a surface-level frontage road system below the highway, connecting intersecting arterials with highway ramps. As part of the larger project, the elevated Civic Blvd. Expressway was constructed to provide a new, east–west highway through Taipei, moving the Taipei railway railroad tracks underground to reduce congestion at surface railroad crossings, and providing new underground parking options. Other additions to this project constructed new underground shopping malls in the vicinity of

and provisions for utilities. In the future, tracks for the

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system will be added under existing tracks for the THSR's extension to Nangang in 2012.

Major interchanges

* Zhongxiao Bridge/ Huanhe Expressway (1st Ave.) - half-interchange with surface arterial and direct-flyover ramps to Zhongxiao Bridge and Huanhe Expressway * Chongqing N. Road (4th Ave.) - half-interchange * Xinsheng Expressway (8th Ave.)/Jinshan N. Road, Xinsheng S. Road/

Songjiang Road Songjiang, from the Chinese for "Pine River" and formerly romanized as Sungkiang, usually refers to one of the following areas within the municipal limits of Shanghai: * Songjiang Town (), the former principal town of the Shanghai area * Songjian ...

(9th Ave.)

Bade Road Bade may refer to: People * Bade (surname) Places * Bade, Burkina Faso, a town in Comoé Province * Bade, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Yobe State * Bade District, a district in Taoyuan, Taiwan * Bade Emirate, a traditional state in Nigeri ...

- full interchange * Guangfu S. Road (13th Ave.), 5th Blvd (surface arterial) - half-interchange *

- ramps to surface arterial (to Xinyi and Songshan) & direct-flyover ramps to MacAuthur bridges (to

)

Major interchanges

See also