The Formosan Railroad Bento Festival has been postponed to November due to a serious outbreak of COVID-19, the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) said yesterday.
The railway agency, which is known for its boxed meals, has been holding the festival since 2015, allowing visitors to taste various meals produced by railway operators, mainly in Taiwan and Japan.
Last year, the annual festival was canceled after the Central Epidemic Command Center raised the COVID-19 alert to level 3 following a surge in local cases.
“The festival this year was supposed to take place from Friday to Monday next week, but because the number of locally
The government began evaluating the feasibility of building a high-speed rail (HSR) extension from Taipei to Yilan 21 years ago, the Railway Bureau said yesterday, adding that it did not cut corners by scrapping the feasibility study of the project.
While the bureau has yet to complete a preliminary assessment of the Yilan extension, such as the location for a terminal station, critics accused Ministry of Transportation and Communications officials of “trampling procedural justice” and “allowing politics to transcend professionalism.”
The ministry began assessing the feasibility of extending the line to Yilan in 2000, the bureau said, adding that it