Saturday, December 26, 2009

Taipei Station台北車站, Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei Station has now been attached with the high speed KaoHsuing-Taipei railway and the centralised bus station for routes to Hsin Zhu, Tai Chung, Tai Nan, Kao Hsuing and Ping Tung...etc., making travel more connected.

1. the look still the same. 2. inside the same.

3. the 2nd floor has changed to a food court managed by the Breeze Mall. 4. See the 12 generations of trains.

5. the ticket counters. 6. the bus station.

7. Civic Blvd. is another main road diverting traffic from the East to the West. It's always busy. 8. A big mall annexed to the bus station.

9. On one of my taxi rides back to the hotel, I chatted with the driver and got to know this centralised bus station has given the locals much headache. There is only one bus lane getting into the station, leading the buses queue in a long line and also causing a very bad traffic. Originally all these bus stops were scattered from the various side street of Chung Qing N. Rd to Cheng Di Rd. Right now the traffic got stuck at one point.

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