Scholar glad airport-line deal is dead

EVERTRANSIT CORP Professor Lawrence Lan says it's better that the deal to have a railway built between Taipei and CKS Airport died before it wasted too much money

By Joyce Huang / STAFF REPORTER

"The extension will connect with the completed north-south railway and is the most economic plan among all other alternatives," Chiao Tung University's Lan said.

The ministry also proposed extending the existing 19.2km coal-line railway section between Linkou and Taoyuan City to the CKS Airport, so that airport-goers can take that railway system all the way from Taipei to the airport.

"Travelling time would be less than 40 minutes with both back-up plans," Wu said.