A group of Taoyuan residents who face having their properties expropriated to make way for a section of an elevated railway system in the northern county yesterday protested against the county government’s planned expropriation.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Huang Jen-chu (黃仁杼), who accompanied the protesters at a press conference in the legislature, said the county government was pushing the elevated railway project, under which 4,000 houses and about 300 hectares of land will be expropriated, which would affect hundreds of farmers and their families.
Because the county government plans to build a 60m-wide avenue along the course of the railway line, it would have to expropriate even more farmland for the project, Huang said.
The dispute has arisen because the county government cannot afford the high construction fees or the amount of compensation demanded by the residents for their land, Huang said.
In addition, since one of the rail stations has been planned for a site on Chung Yuan Christian University’s campus, the government would also have to expropriate more farmland to compensate the university in return, Huang said.
“Of course we feel upset. Our families have lived here for several generations,” said A-Su (阿素), a representative of a self-help association against land expropriation for the project.
“I am so old, where can I move if my land is expropriated and my house torn down?” A-Su said.
Hsieh Hsin-man (謝新滿), deputy chairman of the association, said the local government had not communicateed with them before deciding to seize their land.
He said that it reminded him of the Miaoli County Government’s seizure of farmland to expand the Jhunan Science Park.
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