Taiwan Transportation Safety Board Chairman Young Hong-tsu (楊宏智) yesterday said that he supports the Ministry of Transportation and Communications’ plan to corporatize the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA).
Young made the statement at a news conference in Taipei, at which the board published the results of its investigation into the derailment of a train in Hualien County on April 2 last year.
The southbound Taroko Express No. 408 crashed inside the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道) in Sioulin Township (秀林) after hitting a crane truck that had slid onto the tracks from a service road, derailing it.
Forty-nine people were killed and 213 were injured.
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FEATURE: Experts call organizational change at TRA necessary to address safety issues
By Lee Hsin-Yin / CNA
Government officials have advocated “reforming” the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) following the nation’s worst train crash in decades the derailment of a Taroko Express train in Hualien County on April 2 that left 49 people dead and more than 200 injured.
Such appeals are nothing new official also called for TRA reform after a crash in Yilan County in October 2018 left 18 people dead, but not much has happened since.
However, the calls after the Taroko Express crash seem louder, focusing on the “corporatization” of the government agency.
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Suspect ID d at scene of Taiwan s worst train derailment in decades
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Workers remove a derailed train from a tunnel in Hualien County in eastern Taiwan on March 6, 2021. (Central News Agency/ Kyodo) TAIPEI (Kyodo) A man held on suspicion of causing Taiwan s worst train derailment in seven decades was positively identified as being at the scene of the accident, authorities said on Tuesday. Wang Kwo-tsai, deputy minister of transportation and communications, confirmed that the suspect, Lee Yi-hsiang, is the man seen in a photograph, believed to have been taken by a survivor of the accident, standing on top of a hill looking down at the accident with other spectators, whose identities have yet to be confirmed.
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