Hualien rail derailment

Kaohsiung Tomb Sweeping Holiday Demolition Accident Points to Familiar Issues

Brian Hioe
A demolition accident in Kaohsiung over the Tomb Sweeping Holiday led to 126,000 passengers being affected by delays on Friday. The accident took place after a 52-meter storage silo fell in the wrong direction during the demolition process and knocked out a transmission tower and 69 KV power line supplying power to trains operated by the Taiwan Railways Administration and Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corporation...
April 2022EnglishPolitics5 min read

Corporatization of TRA Will Add to, Not Reduce Rail Safety Issues

Brian Hioe
The Tsai administration's response to the worst rail disaster in Taiwan in over seventy years has been, unfortunately, to make the root cause of the issues that led to the disaster worse. In particular, the Tsai administration has publicly stated that it will restructure the Taiwan Railways Administration to behave more like a corporation after an accident that left fifty dead and over two hundred injured earlier this month...
April 2021EnglishPolitics8 min read