Interview with the Director of Central Region Engineering Office--- Mr. Wen-kui Hsu
                     Photo and text / Jingsiou Vanguard Team 2014.12.11  
   
     Mr. Wen-kui Hsu is 53 years old, who believes that if one does everything well down to the earth, he must achieve great ambition. 30 years ago, he retired from army and entered to Taiwan Railway Bureau through examination to participate in the reconstruction plan of Taipei Railway Station. Acting as a temporary worker, he laid a solid foundation. From a temporary worker, technician, engineer, section leader,professional engineer to vice director and director,

 Reflection

he professionally guaranteed the excellent project quality provided by Central Region Engineering Office.

 

We are all engaged in railway construction

      Railway Reconstruction Bureau has four offices, including the Northern Region, Central Region, Southern Region, and Eastern Region offices. Mr. Hsu is the administrative officer of the 4th level, with jurisdiction including the south of Hsinchu and the north of Tainan, with a length of about 270km. His team members always call themselves experts of “railway construction”, no there is one director, two vice directors, one chief engineer, 5 classes, 4 offices, 3 teams and 6 sections in the team. At present, the reconstructed elevated project has been completed, the elevated Taichung Railway is from Fengyuan Station to Daqing Station, with a total length of 21.7km, and 10 stations.

Break through difficulties in project

     Mr. Hsu mentioned that there were many difficulties to be overcome in Yuanlin Elevated Railway, including the reconstruction of railway in the original place, maintenance of the original transportation function, demolition of Juguang Road Land Bridge before reconstruction, great efforts made in the preservation of Railway Silo, the change of soil liquidation problem and the project base pile construction technology. As for the overcoming of people disturbance problem, in order to reduce the land expropriation area, the construction could only be executed at night for 4 hours. To reconstruct the railway, it was required to make full use of every minute and communicate with the local common people.

Great change of Yuanlin

     Yuanlin Elevated Station made the barrier disappear, the town landscape was reconstructed, convenient traffic was provided, Juguang Land Bridge, 3 level crossings (Shuangping Rd., Jingxiu Rd., Gouzao Ln.) and 5 subways (Shuangping Rd., Huilai St., Zhongshan Rd., Nanchang Rd., Huiming St.) were demolished and Yuanlin Avenue was opened, which made Yuanlin become a safe and new town, with diversified land and commercial contacts, especially under the elevated bridge. As for the preservation of cultural relics, there is little introduction, but Jingsiou Elementary School has an idea to establish Jingsiou Railway Story Hall, in addition to seeing the achievements, Mr. Hsu is also willing to provide assistance.