Transport minister Lin’s resignation is approved
‘POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY’: A mechanism for families affected by a train crash in Hualien would be put in place at the ministry before he leaves, Lin said
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) on Wednesday approved Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung’s (林佳龍) resignation after informing President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of his decision, the Executive Yuan said yesterday.
Lin offered his resignation one day after the derailment of a Taroko Express train in Hualien County on April 2, which killed 49 people and injured 244, Executive Yuan spokesman Lo Ping-cheng (羅秉成) said, adding that Lin would leave office on Tuesday next week.
Vision for TRA needed, nonprofit organization says
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Notes from central Taiwan: Taiwan s normalized accidents
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Cabinet leaning toward corporatization for TRA
NOT PRIVATIZATION: The Cabinet sees Chunghwa Post’s successful corporatization as a good model, but a Chunghwa official said the TRA has bigger problems
By Lee Hsin-fang,
Hsiao Yu-hsin
and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
The Executive Yuan favors corporatization, but not privatization, of the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), following the model of Chunghwa Post Co, which remains a 100 percent state-owned company under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, sources said yesterday.
The issue of reforming the TRA has come to the fore again after a fatal train crash on Friday last week in which 50 people were killed and more than 200 were injured.