Lin Lingsan, the former minister of transportation, who promoted major projects such as the Second North Highway, the high-speed rail, and the snow tunnel, has passed away.

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[Reporter Zheng Weiqi/Taipei Report] Lin Lingsan, former President Chen Shui-bian's longest-serving minister of transportation, who promoted the construction of National Highway No. 3 (Northern Highway), electronic toll collection for national highways, high-speed rail construction, and the completion of the Snow Mountain Tunnel, News of his death came out today, at the age of 78.

Lin Lingsan graduated from the Department of Hydraulic Engineering of Feng Chia University. He studied at Los Angeles University in the United States. After returning to China, he joined the Sewerage Team of the OECD and began to participate in important civil engineering construction in Taiwan. He started from the grassroots. Director of Municipal MRT Engineering Bureau, Chairman of Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Corporation, Deputy Secretary-General of Taipei City Government, Chairman of the Road Association of the Republic of China, Vice Chairman of the Public Works Committee of the Executive Yuan, Deputy Minister of Transportation, Minister of Transportation, Chairman of Zhongxing Consulting Agency With the Deputy Mayor of Taichung City.

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Lin Lingsan attached great importance to the Snow Mountain Tunnel Project during his tenure as the Minister of Transportation. He even went to the snow tunnel to sit with them in the snow tunnel to comfort the engineering personnel who were still working during the Lunar New Year.

Zhao Xinghua, the current highway director of the Ministry of Communications who once stayed in the office of Lin Lingsan, said that the North Second Highway was fully opened to traffic during the tenure of Lin Lingsan, and the subsequent active promotion of the Snow Mountain Tunnel Project on National Highway No. 5 cost a lot of engineering processing Strength, and there is no difference between weekdays and holidays at work, 7 days a week are working days, and there are almost no vacations.

In addition, the construction of high-speed rail was also actively promoted by him during his tenure as Minister of Transport.