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National Highway No. 1 (Taiwan)

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Freeway 1
Zhongshan Freeway
Route information
Maintained by Taiwan Area National Freeway Bureau
Length: 372.8 km (231.6 mi)
Existed: October 31, 1978 – present
Major junctions
North end: PH 2 in Ren'ai
 
South end: PH 17 in Qianzhen
Location
Major cities: Keelung, Taipei, New Taipei, Taoyuan, Zhubei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung
Highway system

Highway system in Taiwan

Fwy. 10 Fwy. 2
Freeway No. 1
Chinese 國道1號

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Highway system in Taiwan

Freeway 1, also known as Sun Yat-sen Freeway (Chinese: 中山高速公路; pinyin: Zhōngshān gāosù gōnglù), is the first freeway in Taiwan. It begins in Keelung at the intersection of Xiao 2nd Road and Zhong 4th Road and ends in Kaohsiung at the intersection of Zhongshan 4th Road and Yugang Road, giving it a total length of 374.3 kilometres (232.6 mi). The Republic of China government named the freeway as Zhongshan (Chung-shan) Expressway in honor of Sun Yat-sen, the country's founding father.

The construction began in 1971. The north section between Keelung and Zhongli (now Zhongli District, Taoyuan) was completed in 1974, and the entire highway was opened in 1978. A 20.7-kilometre (12.9 mi) viaduct on top of the freeway between Xizhi and Wugu was completed in 1997 in order to expand the capacity of the road.

The lanes in both directions are listed below.

Huabiao at the start of the Sun Yat-sen Expressway in Keelung

Sun Yat-sen Expressway passing through Taipei

A tollbooth along the Sun Yat-sen Expressway in Taipei


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