Railway welcomes first 'green' station
Central News Agency
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Taiwan's railway system has inaugurated its first "green" station, which will provide transportation services with state-of-the-art, eco-friendly design and technologies, senior administrators said yesterday. At a ceremony to celebrate the inauguration of the renovated Dalin Station in the southern county of Chiayi, Taiwan Railways Administration Director-General Frank Fan praised the station as a "pastiche of history and modernity."
The station's old building, which was preserved in the renovation project, was built in 1903 under Japanese colonial rule, while the new "green" service complex is equipped with all kinds of eco-friendly technology.
Lauding it as "the most novel, most beautiful, most user-friendly" station among the 200 or so train stations in Taiwan, Fan said the complex is a 100-percent "green building" that not only fully relies on natural ventilation and natural light, but also recycles rainwater and converts sunlight into electricity. Meanwhile, Fan continued, to reduce the pollution caused by the station itself and railway operations, the station is also equipped with noise reducing units and air purifiers.
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