Wang Kwo-tsai given top transport job RAILWAY REFORM: Wang said that his first task as transportation minister would be to inspect 184 construction sites related to the TRA by the end of this month By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter The Executive Yuan yesterday appointed Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) as the new minister of transportation. Wang is to succeed Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung (林佳龍), who tendered his resignation after the derailment of Taroko Express No. 408 on April 2, in which 49 people were killed and 244 injured. It was the nation’s worst railway accident in nearly six decades.