Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp (THSRC) and the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) are collectively seeking restitution of nearly NT$79 million (US$2.7 million) from Southeast Cement Corp for disrupting railway service on Friday last week, Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) told a meeting of the legislature’s Transportation Committee yesterday.
The day before the nation was to observe a four-day Tomb Sweeping Day long weekend, a cement storage facility at the company’s Kaohsiung plant collapsed and crushed an electric tower. Power supply to the high-speed rail system was subsequently cut off, crippling train operations between Tainan and Kaohsiung’s Zuoying Station.
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The New Power Party (NPP) caucus yesterday urged the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) to speed up its train safety reforms, as the agency has shown only minor improvements.
The Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Transportation and Communications should examine whether the railway agency has fulfilled the pledges it made to ensure a safe railway service, the NPP caucus said.
The caucus said it hosted a media conference on the urgency of railway safety reform at the TRA, as it would soon be one year since Taroko Express No. 408 derailed in Hualien County on April 2 last year, killing 49 people
URGENT: The transport ministry seems to think that the TRA’s issues will be solved once it is corporatized, but some changes can be implemented now, Chiu Hsien-chih saidBy Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Taiwan flags at half mast to mourn derailment victims
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Taiwan flags at half mast to mourn derailment victims. Image Source: IANS News
Taipei, April 3 : Flags will be flown at half mast across Taiwan for three days from Saturday to mourn the 50 victims of a fatal train derailment in Hualien county a day earlier.
On Friday morning, the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) No. 408 Taroko train en route from Shulin, New Taipei, to Taitung, suddenly derailed as it entered the Daqingshui tunnel,
The TRA said the derailment involved a maintenance truck which slid from a slope near a construction site above the rail track.
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