The Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) will release a new timetable in June, the nation’s largest train operator said yesterday.
TRA Deputy Director-General Chang Ying-huei (張應輝) said the administration was still adjusting schedules for some of the trains and would unveil the new schedule online by the end of this month.
“We will take feedback from the public and make the necessary changes before we deliver a final version,” Chang said.
The timetable is expected to shorten the operating time of commuter trains between Taipei and Keelung by about five minutes, Chang said. Commuters traveling between Taipei and Hsinchu, meanwhile, could also reach their destinations between 10 minutes and 12 minutes faster after the new schedule is implemented, Chang said.
Chang said the new schedule would increase the number of express trains and semi-express trains to Taichung and Changhua on weekends. The express trains will make a stop at Banciao and go non-stop to Taichung or Changhua. For their part, the semi-express trains will stop at Banciao and then Taoyuan and Jhongli (中壢) and go straight to Taichung or Changhua. The new train service is expected to reduce travel time from Taipei to Taichung by about 20 minutes.
According to the new schedule, 39 Tzuchiang-class express trains will operate along the West Coast.
An essay competition jointly organized by a local writing society and a publisher affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) might have contravened the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例), the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said on Thursday. “In this case, the partner organization is clearly an agency under the CCP’s Fujian Provincial Committee,” MAC Deputy Minister and spokesperson Liang Wen-chieh (梁文傑) said at a news briefing in Taipei. “It also involves bringing Taiwanese students to China with all-expenses-paid arrangements to attend award ceremonies and camps,” Liang said. Those two “characteristics” are typically sufficient
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays in a titanic geopolitical struggle. Palau is again on the front line as China, and the US and its allies prepare their forces in an intensifying contest for control over the Asia-Pacific region. The democratic nation of just 17,000 people hosts US-controlled airstrips and soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the US military describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water and airspace. It is also a key piece of the second island chain, a string of
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake that struck about 33km off the coast of Hualien City was the "main shock" in a series of quakes in the area, with aftershocks expected over the next three days, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said yesterday. Prior to the magnitude 5.9 quake shaking most of Taiwan at 6:53pm yesterday, six other earthquakes stronger than a magnitude of 4, starting with a magnitude 5.5 quake at 6:09pm, occurred in the area. CWA Seismological Center Director Wu Chien-fu (吳健富) confirmed that the quakes were all part of the same series and that the magnitude 5.5 temblor was
The Central Weather Administration has issued a heat alert for southeastern Taiwan, warning of temperatures as high as 36°C today, while alerting some coastal areas of strong winds later in the day. Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門) and Pingtung County’s Neipu Township (內埔) are under an orange heat alert, which warns of temperatures as high as 36°C for three consecutive days, the CWA said, citing southwest winds. The heat would also extend to Tainan’s Nansi (楠西) and Yujing (玉井) districts, as well as Pingtung’s Gaoshu (高樹), Yanpu (鹽埔) and Majia (瑪家) townships, it said, forecasting highs of up to 36°C in those areas
RSS