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Taiwan Quick Take: Taipei eyeing maglev trains
STAFF WRITER, WITH AGENCIES
Saturday, Jun 24, 2006, Page 3
Taipei plans to import magnetically levitated (maglev) trains from Japan, the Chinese-language newspaper United Daily News said yesterday. The company in charge of building the 4.5km Xinyi District Light Rail plans to use the same maglev system used at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, the paper said. The Taipei Bureau of Transportation, which screens all construction projects in the city, is likely to approve the proposal at its last screening meeting on Sept. 20, the paper said. The maglev proposal won approval at the Taipei Bureau of Transportation's initial screening in April. Construction of the maglev rail will take four years and cost NT$16 billion (US$485 million). The Xinyi District Light Rail will circle the world's tallest building, the 508m-tall Taipei 101. The rail will have 10 stops, and the maglev train will run at 80kph.
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