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Taipei has one of the most reliable and well developed metro systems in Asia, and the system was built over just 20 years! Check out today’s video to learn more and don’t forget to share.
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This is a reupload due to technical issues, please enjoy if you haven't seen it before!
Taipei is an awesome city and its metro is the best I've ever experienced.
Do Brussels next please they have one of the oldest continues used trams systems in the world
Can you take a look at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
You should have mentioned about the number of announcement languages used on the Taipei Metro: Mandarin, English, Hokkien (Min-nan), Hakka, and (on select stations) Japanese. When your train approaches Taipei Main Station, you'll hear 5 announcement languages about that.
You should cover the Prague Metro system
Vienna. Because I like it. Also with its 100-year-old stations, it's 5 normal and one excentric line and its modern additions. And if you want to you can cover the even more excited tram system that has been operating hear for over 200 years. With everything from local rolling stock its brad expands around the ring and its 1900 confusing naming system and its 1960 tunnel mania that we lucky got past to our 2 new and modern rowling stock types to the nice Red and wight disine. Also if you need help form a local just contact me.
It would be nice to see one about the Rio de Janeiro transit explained, it's not the best system in the world but it's very diverse, with undergroud, light rail, commuter rail, BRT and lots of others such as MotoTaxis for example. Just an idea
Hey, you should really do a video about Metro Bilbao
BTW, love the channel
What about Moscow metro? Have you some video about it?
In January 2023, Taipei Metro will transfer the operating rights of Yellow Line (Circular Line) to New Taipei Metro after their 3 year operating contract ends. The line itself is owned by New Taipei Metro and now they’re taking over running it themselves, until the entire ring completes in early 2030s which the entire line will be transferred back to Taipei Metro
Taiwan/ROC's intercity rail operator Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) also runs commuter rail service thru Taipei, from the port city of Keelung in the NE to Miaoli/Taoyuan/Hsinchu in the SW. They just bought 10-car rolling stock from Hyundai Rotem (EMU900) with a mix of transverse & longitudinal seating, but running with 25kV AC overhead wires & Cape track gauge instead. They have older stock too e.g. EMU700, 800
Question to the locals from Taipei who are also probably watching, is there a reason why they decided against a four line interchange station at the eastern end of the green and red lines, connecting with blue and the circular?
Considering how close they are it seems like a wasted opportunity.
Another notable feature of the system that you alluded to, but deserves to be said explicitly is the quality of the stations. I've never been anywhere outside of Japan that has such extensive retail in many of the stations. Additionally, it's got really nice, clean bathrooms and something I've never seen anywhere else: breastfeeding rooms at 39 busy stations!
Taipei's transit card, EasyCard, is somewhat like HongKong's Octopus Card or many of Japan's transit cards in that it can be used for a lot more than transit (convenience stores, etc). But in some ways, it's even more advanced as you can get SIM cards and phone apps that emulate EasyCard rather like in Shanghai. You can even get phone cases, keychains and watches (much cheaper than smart watches) that have EasyCard chips built in. My favourite integration is with the city's very extensive bike hire system — just so simple!
The system is just incredibly attuned to passenger experience in a way that many places could learn from.
Fantastic video. I've lived in Taipei for many years and it's truly a very efficient and clean system, much different from European systems. I would also humbly suggest a video on the Istanbul metro system. It's currently the city where most metro lines are built simultaneously in the world. And where the famous Marmaray line under the Bosphorus is operating.
You should do a video on the Hong Kong MTR as well. It is the other one that is often cited as a gold standard that Metro systems around the world should aspire to, along with the Taipei Metro. In fact, when the Singapore MRT was having frequent breakdowns, they sent teams to Hong Kong and Taipei to learn best practices after a public outcry.
The east-to-west segments of the red and green lines were constructed much later. Before Dec 2014, the north-to-south segments of both lines operated as one continuous line.
Being from Taiwan and having traveled around the world, I’m not shy to say that Taipei really has one of the most modern, cleanest, and most efficient metro systems in the world.
I’ve heard you mentioned you already covered Tokyo, but I can’t seem to find it.
I really enjoy riding on the taipei metro system:)
I should note that the C301 cars were built at Kawasaki's factory in Yonkers, NY before being exported to Taiwan.
Great
moving to taipei in a week. this video is getting me so excited!
Hay quá
Thanks for the great overview of Taipei Metro lines. If the intention is to provide a chronological development it will be better to split the lines into their initial development first and then show their (sometimes much) later multiple extensions, including line routing modifications (red line/green line / orange line changed over time). E.g. The brown line stopped prior to Songshan airport originally and was only extended in the 2000s. The red line did NOT end at XinYi (this was added in the 2010s). The blue line was extended towards the east and west several times. The Orange Line Y extension came also in the 2010s as well as the east-west part of the green line. While very detailed and convoluted, it might be helpful to show this to understand the progress and balance between inner-city development and reaching out to the suburbs (TTY Airport Express).
The Rotterdam metro network would make a nice explainer. Not only is it the largest network in the Benelux (yes, Amsterdam and Brussels are smaller) with connections as 'far away' as Den Haag (The Hague), but the network also use a mix of 3rd rail and overhead line power supply, and the trains switch modes WHILE DRIVING without any disruption, and don't forget the use of old railway lines. Also a nice mention are the various transit hubs where regional and local bus lines end and people changes to the metro, so the busses don't have to drive all the way to a central hub like Central Station. The last fact I'll mention now is that a part of the network is – together with 3 tram lines in Den Haag – branded as 'RandstadRail' to transit between Rotterdam, Den Haag and Zoetermeer. At a part of the RandstadRail network both subway trains and trams share the tracks and stations have platforms on both heights of the vehicles.
Just wanted to point out that the brown line is rubber-tyred! I guess regular viewers can deduce that from what you said about VAL but I was very surprised about that when I took it for the first time 😅
Very informative vid. Well done.
For a foreigner Taipei MRT is great… For a Taiwanese… The MRT is too slow low effenciency
Cover Kaohsiung City MRT next if you please
You should do Melbourne Victoria 0:30
Cross platform line transfer is A LOT of fun… Really… Nothing else in a subway as satisfying as perfectly timed arrival of two lines, passengers all walking briskly across the platform, and all done perfectly and on our merry way.
As for lights on platform to warn of incoming trains. I still remember the time when my fellow countrymen are not that rule abiding, and IIRC the lights are added to encourage them to stay at a safe distance.
I'm glad to say that the lights are no longer useful for that since like 20 years ago. They are more for "get ready to board", as etiquette is pretty good for a while now. The platform doors are sadly for suicide prevention then anything else.
Also there's a batch of high capacity trains made by United something (pardon my fuzzy memory) in New York in 1991. You can tell the age of the trains by the noise they make, older=louder.
You can find a plaque on each train with information on who and when each were made.
Rennes in France, two metro lines in a small city.
Fun fact, Taipei MRT digs often have to pause due to archaeology and discovery of old walls and structures underneath. There's even a cute exhibit inside Beimen station (green line, iirc) that have a little excavation dig glassed up that you can peer at.
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Great video! Now I want to go to Taipei and check out this system