Notes from Central Taiwan: HSR dreams, democratic nightmares

This month the government floated plans to extend the High Speed Rail (HSR) network around the entire island. Transportation Minister Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) said that this dream will be built piece by piece, due to its high construction costs.
At present plans are being formulated for an extension to Yilan, with the new HSR station slated for a site 350 meters south of the Yilan county government complex. The government has promised to put in a new train station there as well.
That project is paralleled by a proposal to spend billions to put in an express rail line to

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