Taipei City Hall Rapid Transit Engineering Bureau today (17) held "Taipei City West Gateway Plan Taipei Station specific dedicated area C1/D1 east half of the street contour of the land development project (commonly known as the Taipei Twin Star joint open case)" signing ceremony. Minister of Transportation Lin Chia-lung said in his speech that the development of this case will become the node of the "city within a city" of Taipei City, and will become the origin of the public's imagination of urban life, experience landmarks, the Ministry of Transportation, as the "landlord" of this case, look forward to the completion of the project as soon as possible.
Minister of Transportation Lin Chia-lung said that in 2005, the Ministry of Transportation and the Northern Municipal Government signed an administrative contract, entrusted to the Northern Municipal Government to carry out the Taoyuan Airport Rapid Transit, the triple section of the project to the Taipei Station, but also as the competent authority for the development of the land, his presence today not only witnessed 15 years ago on the signing of the "capital landmark, the gateway to Taipei," the development case, on the other hand, the Ministry of Transportation (Taiwan Railway Administration) is the largest landowner in this case, and time The biggest cost and uncertainty of the development project is the time.
Lin Chia-lung said that the development of the "Taipei Twin Star" will make the six railways have a better landmark, so that the public can experience the station is not just a place for transportation, but also to meet all the needs of life, which is also in line with the Ministry of Transportation is promoting the concept of the "high speed rail network around the island," that is, the "western high speed rail, the eastern part of the express railroad" of the main axis, so that the north-south extension of the link, so that the metropolitan area within the station, the metro and the mass transit system to link up with the BOT to do national land development. The BOT will be used for land development.
Lin Chia-lung said that through "transportation-oriented urban development (TOD)", the transportation hub can bring newer transportation services, accessibility, and create a "city within a city" node. This case is also surrounded by a number of Ministry of Transportation development projects, including the Taipei Post Office, the Railway Museum and other land entrusted to the Northern Municipal Government for development. Today's signing of the contract for the "Taipei Twin Stars" will be the origin of the spatial coordinates of future Taipei, and even more so, it will be the origin of the public's imaginations of urban life and the coordinates of the experience, and we are looking forward to the project to be completed on schedule, and even a little bit faster!
At the same time, Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-chieh said that the "old city revitalization, axial reversal" in the past is "election slogans, political imagination," the most important of the five museums in the Danshui River is the western gateway project, so he took office the night of the demolition of the Zhongxiao West Road bus lanes, and then spent six days to demolish the Zhongxiao Bridge approach, so that the northern gateway to the re-emergence of the following, and then the Kwok Kong bus station to move away, the Sanjung warehouse to demolish the re-organization of the road line changes, and then straightened! Beiping West Road, and then invested 2.2 billion yuan to demolish the old houses around it.
Ko said, the Western District gateway project one by one at the same time, the most critical is the Taipei Twin Star case, the past dragged on for 13 years, five times aborted bidding, and fraud, corruption and profiteering, he took two years after taking office to deal with the legal process, so flaunted the "open government, universal participation, open and transparent", so the organization of the integrity of the platform, the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the Ministry of Justice District Prosecutor's Office, the Northern Municipal Office of the Government Winds Division to jointly carry out the minutes of the meeting, meetings, rules all online public, and also opened a lot of explanatory meetings, so far has not been questioned the drawbacks, so open and transparent seems to be slower, but can avoid all suspicions. The minutes and rules of the meetings were all made public on the Internet, and a lot of explanatory meetings were held. Therefore, so far, there has not been any doubt that there are any shortcomings, so openness and transparency seem to be relatively slow, but it can avoid all the suspicions.
Ke emphasized that the flow of people on behalf of the gold flow, the development of this case amounted to 60.6 billion yuan, the North City Government can receive 1.8 billion yuan of rent each year in the future, housing tax, land tax, etc. There are also 1.46 billion yuan, and the peripheral urban planning, such as the reconstruction of the back of the train station, etc., will also be completed with the "Taipei Twin Star" development case together with the planning will be able to realize the slogan of the "Western District Turnaround"!
