Grouting was yesterday used to repair a section of road in Taipei, after work on a construction site caused the surface to partially collapse on Friday evening, the Taipei Construction Management Office said yesterday, adding that nearby buildings were not affected.
The road surface of Qingcheng Street near the intersection with Xingan Street in Taipei’s Songshan District (松山) collapsed at about 9pm on Friday. When police arrived they found four cars parked by the roadside tilting to one side.
Police estimated the area that had subsided was about 4m by 30m, and was about 1.5m deep. They cordoned off the surrounding area to prevent injuries.
Photo: Yang Hsin-hui, Taipei Times
The Taipei Construction
Management Office said it received a report about the collapse at 9:15pm, and immediately sent officials there.
At the site on Friday evening, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said that a preliminary assessment had found that excavations had not started at the construction site, and only a guide ditch had been dug.
However, the guide ditch collapsed, along with the adjoining roadside surface, he said, adding that emergency grouting work was being done to prevent the road from collapsing further.
Taipei Deputy Mayor Lee Shu-chuan (李四川), also on-site on Friday evening, said that the builders would be ordered to halt operations, and would only be allowed to start again after submitting a plan and passing a safety review.
The grouting work was expected to be completed yesterday, he said.
The office said in a news release yesterday morning that the construction company is Pujen Land Development Co (璞真建設) and the contractor is Continental Engineering Co (大陸工程), adding that construction began on Sept. 12, 2022.
A 14m-deep, 1.2m-wide guide ditch was being constructed, but lacked sufficient internal support causing the outer roadside surface to sink, the office said, adding that a civil engineer association, structural engineer association, architect association and geotechnical engineer association have been contacted to help assess the situation.
A preliminary assessment by the associations found that nearby buildings had not been affected, the office said, adding that it had ordered operations at the site to be halted and had issued a fine of NT$180,000.
Grouting along the inner side of the guide ditch has been completed by 1:30pm yesterday, while grouting along the outer side of the ditch and fence began at 3pm, it said adding that grouting work on the road was expected to begin at 6pm.
Taipei and New Taipei City government officials are aiming to have the first phase of the Wanhua-Jungho-Shulin Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line completed and opened by 2027, following the arrival of the first train set yesterday. The 22km-long Light Green Line would connect four densely populated districts in Taipei and New Taipei City: Wanhua (萬華), Jhonghe (中和), Tucheng (土城) and Shulin (樹林). The first phase of the project would connect Wanhua and Jhonghe districts, with Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Chukuang (莒光) being the terminal stations. The two municipalities jointly hosted a ceremony for the first train to be used
MILITARY AID: Taiwan has received a first batch of US long-range tactical missiles ahead of schedule, with a second shipment expected to be delivered by 2026 The US’ early delivery of long-range tactical ballistic missiles to Taiwan last month carries political and strategic significance, a military source said yesterday. According to the Ministry of National Defense’s budget report, the batch of military hardware from the US, including 11 sets of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and 64 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems, had been scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan between the end of this year and the beginning of next year. However, the first batch arrived last month, earlier than scheduled, with the second batch —18 sets of HIMARS, 20 MGM-140 missiles and 864 M30
Representative to the US Alexander Yui delivered a letter from the government to US president-elect Donald Trump during a meeting with a former Trump administration official, CNN reported yesterday. Yui on Thursday met with former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien over a private lunch in Salt Lake City, Utah, with US Representative Chris Stewart, the Web site of the US cable news channel reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter. “During that lunch the letter was passed along, and then shared with Trump, two of the sources said,” CNN said. O’Brien declined to comment on the lunch, as did the Taipei
A woman who allegedly attacked a high-school student with a utility knife, injuring his face, on a Taipei metro train late on Friday has been transferred to prosecutors, police said yesterday. The incident occurred near MRT Xinpu Station at about 10:17pm on a Bannan Line train headed toward Dingpu, New Taipei City police said. Before police arrived at the station to arrest the suspect, a woman surnamed Wang (王) who is in her early 40s, she had already been subdued by four male passengers, one of whom was an off-duty Taipei police officer, police said. The student, 17, who sustained a cut about
RSS