Taiwan Railways Administration

Evictions Due to Railroad Development Project Leads to Clashes Between Protesters, Police in Mid-August

Police clashed with protesters in Tainan on August 20th and August 21st, as part of efforts by authorities to evict the last household resisting eviction as part of plans to construct the Tainan Urban District Railway Underground Project. A total of 340 households were displaced for the railway development project. While most households agreed to move, five households refused...

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

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...