Li Sichuan responded to the controversy over the hollowing out of the base of Mao Cable’s T16 tower: He was serving in Taipei County at the time, and the election was smeared

In response to the controversy over the cat cable project requiring the relocation of nearby residents, KMT New Taipei City mayoral candidate Li Sichuan said that he was serving in Taipei County at the time, but this election was used to smear the city. (Photo by reporter Lai Xiaotong)

Democratic Progressive Party New Taipei City Councilor Yan Weici broke the news yesterday (12th) that when the Maokong Cable Car T16 tower was found to have a hollowed base, Li Sichuan, then director of the Taipei City New Construction Engineering Department and New Taipei City mayoral candidate of the Kuomintang, asked the more than 300 families who were injured below the tower to move. Li choked and said, "It is the residents who should move, not the tower." Li Sichuan responded today that he was already serving in Taipei County at the time, and he actually used it to smear him during this election.

Yan Weici posted an article yesterday pointing out that in 2008, the base of the Mao Cable T16 tower was discovered to be hollowed out. At that time, the Taipei City Government was still looking for the best reinforcement and relocation plan. 305 households in the surrounding communities were worried about the safety of their lives and property. As a result, Li Sichuan, the former director of the New Construction Department of Taipei City, actually choked the public: "What should be relocated is the National Cheng Kung University Imperial Garden, not the T16 tower." At that time, not only did the chairman of the National Chengchi University Garden come out to criticize Li Sichuan, saying that "it is outrageous to make a random statement in order to evade blame." Li Sichuan's remarks were also commented by the print media at the time as "the top ten gaffes of the year."

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Li Sichuan attended the "Diabetes Prevention and Control Publicity and Parent-Child Hiking Charity Event" in Zhonghe District this morning. The media was concerned about the controversy over the cat cable project. Li Sichuan said that in 2008, he was originally serving in Taipei County, not Taipei City. At that time, there was a problem with the tower column, and he held a meeting with the four major technicians' unions. The technicians' union raised the possibility that there might be a collapse problem.

Li Sichuan said that he told the Technicians Guild that if it collapses, the most dangerous thing will be the community underneath. Does the community also have to consider relocation? At that time, opinions on people's safety were raised in all discussions. During this election, they were used to smear him, and they even said that he was the director of Taipei City's New Work Department at that time, and that he had already served in Taipei County at that time.