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In addition, Taiwan is much concerned about the tunnel's potential use by China in military actions. [1] Nonetheless, in July 2013, the Chinese State Council approved plans for the project. [6] As the relation between Taiwan and China worsens, the proposal has been mocked in Taiwan, along with the Beijing–Taipei high-speed rail corridor [7].
The Beijing–Hong Kong (Taipei) corridor is a proposed high-speed railway corridor in Greater China.It will run in a north–south direction from Beijing to Hong Kong, with a branch leading from Hefei to end at Taipei across the Taiwan Strait.
Project planning is unilateral, undertaken without the participation of Taiwan, which the People's Republic of China claims, but has never controlled. The Pingtan–Taipei portion of the railway headed to Taiwan is referred as "possible long-term future expansions" in construction documents of Fuzhou–Pingtan section. [2]
Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 2,025 kilometres (1,258 mi) (as of 2015) of railway networks. [2] Though no longer as dominant as it once was, rail transport is an extremely important form of transportation in Taiwan due to high population density, especially along the densely populated western corridor.
The Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) is the national conventional passenger railway operator in Taiwan, established on 5 March 1948. Railway services began in 1891 between Keelung and Hsinchu under mainland China's Qing Dynasty, with a complete reform intended under the Japanese Colonial Government. This Japanese influence remains in TRA's ...
The Railway Bureau (RB; traditional Chinese: 交通部鐵道局; simplified Chinese: 交通部铁道局; pinyin: Jiāotōng Bù Tiědào Jú) is the government agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan responsible for the public works construction, supervision, management and other related affairs of railway, MRT and other railway transportation systems.
Taiwan Railway (TR) [II] is a state-owned conventional railway in Taiwan. It is operated by the Taiwan Railway Corporation under the supervision of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, responsible for managing, maintaining, and running conventional passenger and freight railway services on 1,097 km (682 mi) of track in Taiwan. [1]
Taiwan High Speed Rail map, as of 2022. The railway was opened in 2007, [27] with limited commercial services between Banqiao and Zuoying stations from 5 January, [28] [29] with full service from Taipei Station to Kaohsiung from May 2007. [30] Three additional stations located along the line – Miaoli, Changhua and Yunlin – opened in 2015. [31]