Talking about the life of living beside the railway for a long time with Wen-chi Yang
Photo and text/Jingsiou Vanguard Team 2014.12.10 Stealing the sugarcane in the train of sugar railway for fun in childhood Wen-chi Yang has lived for 55 years beside the railway. In the early period, when hearing the whistle of train with sugarcane, the children in the village would actively wait beside the railway to steal the sugarcane on the train, and this was a happy period in the times with non-abundant materials. The children did not feel it was noisy to live beside the railway, but on the contrary, they expected the coming of train, and their life had been blended with the train.
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Mr. Yang thinks that the old rail area of the Sugar Railway is the best place for residents’ leisure, but due to lack of environmental management, there is weed everywhere and it is too dirty, really pitiful. He thinks it is feasible to cover the old railway for safety, and no one would fall whether in walking or riding, but the disadvantage is that the nostalgic sense is lost. When Jingsiou Vanguard Team asked about the maintenance of obsolete old rail and station of Sugar Railways, he thought no individual could do this, but they should be jointly maintained by the residences in combination with Xihu Sugar Refinery and Yuanlin Township Office. If kept smoothly, they can be taken as a memorial place of life history.
Safeguarding homeland
Mr. Yang thinks that the elevated Yuanlin Railway brings prosperity and convenient traffic to Yuanlin, without the jamming of trains, but for the residents who have lived along the railway for a long time, what is lost is that they cannot hear the ground driving sound of train, and the biggest problem is that the resident might have their old houses expropriated.
As for the puzzles to the Yang family and the neighborhood after the construction of elevated railway project, Mr. Yang expresses that he has a deep feeling to this place, and there is a good feeling among the residents, and it is really unreasonable to expropriate the house in order to open the traffic. At present, there are up to 9 roads of various sizes running through the east and west, and it is really unnecessary to expropriate the houses of the residents to influence the residence right. It is suggested to observe the traffic condition after leveling of the tunnel before overall inspection. Mr. Yang says that he would never compromise, and he will be unwilling to move regardless of the compensation.