Rail reform to go ahead: minister - Taipei Times
Minister of Transportation and Communications Wang Kwo-tsai (王國材) yesterday reaffirmed the government’s commitment to reforming the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA), one day after Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) met with family members of people killed in a Taroko Express train crash in Hualien County in April last year. Wang said that safety and organizational improvements are being implemented, following the incident in which a train hit a crane truck that had fallen from a construction site onto the tracks near the Cingshuei Tunnel (清水隧道). The crash, which left 49 peo...