Investment in Taiwan’s Sinbin highway connection

Taiwan is to benefit from major investment worth close to US$744 million in a highway construction project. The National Expressway Engineering Bureau of Taiwan is planning a freeway that will provide a new link between Sinbin Expressway and Sun Yat-Sen Freeway, which is also known as Freeway No 1. A report on the project will be submitted to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan by the bureau on the project assessment by June 2013. The planned freeway named as Branch Line of Freeway N
March 6, 2013 Read time: 1 min
Taiwan is to benefit from major investment worth close to US$744 million in a highway construction project. The National Expressway Engineering Bureau of Taiwan is planning a freeway that will provide a new link between Sinbin Expressway and Sun Yat-Sen Freeway, which is also known as Freeway No 1. A report on the project will be submitted to the 2530 Ministry of Transportation and Communications of Taiwan by the bureau on the project assessment by June 2013. The planned freeway named as Branch Line of Freeway No 1 will have a length of 11km. The new freeway will help improve cargo transportation to and from Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

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