 The Seoul Metropolitan Government also kicked off a project in 2002 that restored the Chunggye River, located between City hall and Shindab, which was formerly covered over with a concrete-covered freeway overpass.The freeway was razed and the project was completed on October 1, 2005 after spending 1.5 trillion Korean won (1.4 billion US dollars) by the city government.This project is one of the steps of the city's long term project to promote a higher quality of life for Seoul residents and to provide better environmentally friendly urban development planning.