Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) officials had failed to fulfill their duty in the past, approaching railway projects with the wrong mentality, he said. Chiayi and Changhua counties have also proposed express railway projects, which the central government would take on one at a time, he said. The central government should not pass the buck to local governments in planning railway projects around the nation, Lin added. We now aim to help local governments resolve the difficulties they encounter when they propose railway projects,” he said. MOTC officials also presented a proposal to extend the high-speed rail line to Yilan on a different corridor to the one proposed by the Railway Bureau to build an TRA express railway service connecting the county with Taipei.

Source: Taipei Times November 13, 2019 15:59 UTC