RAILWAY RUCKUS:NPP Legislator Huang Kuo-chang said ATPs were the TRA’s most problematic component, as on average there are 133 malfunctions per month
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 31, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
New Power Party (NPP) Legislator Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) yesterday asked Premier
Premier William Lai, left, and Minister of Transportation and Communications Wu Hong-mo take part in a question-and-answer session at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
William Lai (賴清德) to remove Minister of Transportation and Communications Wu Hong-mo (吳宏謀) from his post, after Wu was stumped by some elementary questions regarding the Puyuma Express train derailment on Oct. 21.
Wu on Monday also passed on erroneous information regarding the Puyuma Express’ automatic train protection (ATP) device to the media.
During a question-and-answer session with Lai and Wu at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, Huang asked Wu to clarify remarks he made on Monday at a news conference that it would be time-consuming to send the ATP device back to Japan to be checked and that the Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) would instead ask the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology to improve on the exisiting ATP.
Wu initially told Huang that the ministry would investigate whether the derailed train had been equipped with an ATP and if it had, whether the device was functioning properly.
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