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Taipei's insanely efficient, remarkably punctual and shockingly clean subway system is a marvel of mass transit every city should emulate. Although there are just 69 stations to serve a city of 2. ...
Gamuda Bhd, the main contractor for the New Taipei City government's Department of Rapid Transit Systems, has awarded Hitachi ...
Taipei's transit system is in a class of its own, and it should serve as inspiration to other cities. We all deserve the metro experience of our dreams — not our nightmares.
Gamuda Bhd, the main contractor for the New Taipei City government's Department of Rapid Transit Systems (NTCG DORTS), has ...
In 2005, only 29 delays of more than 5 minutes struck the system, allowing Taipei to boast about its service being better than that of New York, Paris, ... Taipei's subway, ...
Taipei’s subway system (MRT) is only 20 years old but it’s intuitive and clean and (best of all) cheap—between NT $20-$65 per ride. (That’s about two U.S. dollars for the longest trip.) ...
In a new restriction, all passengers on Taipei's subway system now must wear medical masks. When the measure came into force on Sunday, the usual din of conversation on trains was absent as masked ...
Taiwan is an extremely safe island, one that prides itself on its clean and efficient subway system. So when an assailant went on a stabbing spree in a Taipei subway station last month, killing ...
In this viral photo (left) posted to Facebook by Yu Yen Huang, Taipei's new mayor Ko Wen-je is seen standing alone aboard a subway train. "It's definitely unusual for a politician to do like this ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Even though 1.9 million commuters use the Taipei Mass Rapid Transit each day, at least three lines are ...
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The Blue Line is the central Taiwan city’s second MRT route, following the Green Line, which has operated since 2021 between ...