Taiwan News
Date: 2016-07-24
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Directorate General of Highways (DGOH) said Sunday it will make public in August a 
blacklist of tour bus companies that have had bad records of causing traffic incidents and violating traffic rules in light of the tour bus accident that killed 26 people on July 19.
After the accident, Minister of Transportation and Communications Hochen Tan issued an order to step up efforts to conduct roadside inspections of tour buses, to review laws and regulations regarding inspection and safety standards of tour buses, and to supervise tour bus companies by making public those with good management and those with ill behavior and bad practices. The purpose of revealing the records is to use consumers’ boycott power to encourage good companies and eliminate bad companies, the minister said.
The DGOH said it will announce the best performing companies on July 28, and the worst performing, or ill-behaved, companies in August. [FULL STORY]
