Comprehensive Taiwan media reports The Southeast Cement Plant in Nanzi District, Kaohsiung carried out a cement trough removal project this afternoon (April 1). The huge storage trough collapsed for unknown reasons, overwhelming the adjacent high-voltage tower, resulting in abnormal power supply, causing the transportation of the high-speed railway Zuoying Station to Tainan Station interrupted. From the accident scene, we can see that the collapse caused a lot of dust in just 20 seconds, accompanied by flashing , and overwhelming the high-voltage electric tower and the strange hands working beside it. Fortunately, no casualties were caused.
In an earlier media interview, the Bureau of Industry said that today it is preparing to perform pre-operation of bottom decompression and sand extraction of cement troughs. After digging and extracting the hole, the construction workers are at rest time. The storage trough collapses for unknown reasons, which crushes the Taiwan-electric tower of the 69KV line, causing high-voltage cables to affect operation and power supply, resulting in the suspension of high-speed rail. In the future, the city government communicated and coordinated with relevant units to cut off the power line at around 7 pm, hoping to repair the cables within 2 hours.
high-speed rail train Zuoying and Tainan were interrupted, and the train could only travel to Tainan Station. Passengers heading south to Kaohsiung can only rely on shuttle buses, which caused crowds inside and outside Tainan Station and the surrounding roads became parking lots. Tainan Station dispatched 85 additional shuttle buses, but there were still a crowd inside and outside the station. The Transportation Bureau of Tainan Municipal Government stated that the main trains departure south still carried passengers to Tainan Station. The crowd could not be alleviated for a while. It has assisted the high-speed rail in dispatching 15 tour buses, and will help if necessary.
high-speed rail stated that due to the interruption of Zuoying power supply, the indirect shuttle bus from Zuoying Station to Tainan Station will be strengthened from 5:05 pm. A total of 80 shuttle buses were mobilized from Zuoying Station and 85 shuttle buses were mobilized from Tainan Station to strengthen the service of passengers. However, according to the fact that each car can take 40 people each time, the shuttle bus will connect Tainan passengers to Kaohsiung and Kaohsiung to Tainan to take a ride, which will make it difficult to relieve the crowds for a while.
Many passengers asked their families to pick them up and drop them off, which also caused the cars to swell up the surrounding roads. Tainan Municipal Government stated that 15 police forces have been used around the high-speed rail station and 5 people have been handed over to guide them. Police forces have been dispatched to important intersections around Tainan High-speed Rail Station to strengthen traffic diversion. They also coordinated the Transportation Bureau to extend the green light sign of Guiren Avenue (in front of the gate of No. 4 of the high-speed rail station) to guide the traffic flow of passengers.
Zuoying High-speed Railway Station stated that all passenger transport companies dispatched and arranged more than 60 vehicles to Zuoying High-speed Railway Station, but due to vehicle registration problems, the passengers once watched the empty cars in front of them but could not take the bus. The passenger transport company stated that the supervision station requested to go to Zuoying High-speed Railway to rescue and evacuate the crowd, because the high-speed railway station must first register license plates and driving and other related information, and then funds can be allocated to support driving. However, the processing process is too slow and the passenger transport is stuffed at the entrance of the passenger station. It took nearly half an hour to solve the dilemma and let passengers get on the bus.
It was the eve of the Qingming Festival holiday. People were preparing to take the high-speed rail home. There were also tourists who were going out for a trip, but they happened to meet the high-speed rail out of their bags. Even the Taiwan Railway could not even take the Taiwan Railway at night. The later the people waiting to take the shuttle bus, the more crowds they were. They lined up from the passenger station to the Shinkwang Mitsukoshi on the side and then walked around to the high-speed rail entrance. They wanted to queue up but couldn't find where the tail end was.
Also, according to Taiwan media reports, Zuoying High-speed Railway Station's evening broadcast announced that there will be no more trains heading north tonight, and nearly 100,000 people will be affected. Relevant personnel also said that the Omickron epidemic is breaking out, and the crowds make people worry about whether the spread of the epidemic will accelerate.
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