Yilan High Speed Rail Environmental Assessment Preliminary Review, Environmental Committee Requests Supplementary Amendments and Re-Review

On the 5th, the Ministry of Environment held a preliminary review of the environmental impact assessment of the high-speed rail extension to Yilan. The meeting lasted more than 6 hours. In response to outside doubts about whether the project can solve the traffic congestion problem in the east, the Environmental Committee asked the Ministry of Transportation and Communications' Railway Bureau, the developer, to propose the economic benefits, fin…