CONNECTED: The transit system would connect Tainan with Kaohsiung, making the municipalities the ‘twin engines’ that propel Taiwan’s development, the premier said
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 12, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Premier William Lai (賴清德) yesterday marked the beginning of construction on
Premier William Lai speaks at a news conference in Tainan yesterday announcing the beginning of construction on the municipality’s advanced transit system as part of the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program. Photo: CNA
Tainan’s advanced transit system, which is to connect Tainan to Kaohsiung, saying that the project would see southern Taiwan replace the north as the driver behind national development.
Part of the Cabinet’s Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program, the system is to be constructed in stages, with the first stage being the construction of three lines — color-coded red, blue and green — at a cost of NT$75 billion (US$2.44 billion), Lai said at a ceremony in Tainan.
The transit system is to be built to international standards, Lai said, adding that he hoped the system would leverage Tainan’s development.
The three lines would pass through Tainan’s culturally rich Anping (安平), West Central (中西) and North (北) districts, as well as the the city’s most populated Yongkang (永康) and East (東) districts, Lai said. [FULL STORY]