Even the stairs.
I would think this would be more appropriate for disco train approaching music.
It would be waaay better than club music too. But can we compromise with the Fugees version?
https://youtu.be/_pBaiYUEYKU
It’s stupid trying to create tourist attractions with lights in MRT stations.
The one in Kaohsiung is getting a lot of advertising and is promoted so it’s now become a tourist attraction.
When all you have is lemons, you make lemon juice. When all you have is a hole in the ground, you light it up.
I just got back from Tokyo, where I was astonished–and also strangely moved–to see a passage connecting different subway lines (don’t ask me where) made out with a faux canopy: stylized forest greenery up overhead to soothe harried commuters as they rush to change trains underground!
Guy
First World Problems strike again!
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are there a lot of people employed by the metro company without anything better to do? this is pretty pointless, so is the different music played at different stations. just choose one jingle for all the stations and move on to a more important job for gawds sakes!
You know something has reached perfection when further “improvements” start to make it worse.
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Have you guys noticed that Ximen station has a here come the clowns fare that blends into the Nuptial Hymn?
Hey, the locals called it even worse. It translates as puticlub in Spanish. Seriously.
What’s that in Mandarin? 
Maybe 夜店 or 妓院?
I’m from Boston, and I truly appreciate a subway that isn’t an underground slum. All the lights and music? At worst it’s cute. When you’re in a hole in the ground, adequate lighting and cheery decor are both appreciated.
In Russia the subway stations have chandeliers. And packs of wild dogs. What an interesting world.
Never did like the Yellow Line jingle, but I gather they’ve changed it.
Taipei is still bug ugly above ground. They could maybe do something about that? Some paint on the concrete, some hardcore scrubbing of that tile grout, and get rid of that dented corrugated metal. If they make it all look a giant disco like the Shinjuku wannabe section of Ximending, that would still be an improvement.
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dank hole with mold and rust and paint flaking off like a leper’s skin and and leaking sewer pipes and bad lighting, but a bright, cheery hole with music and sculptures. And if it was all a bit over the top, the hobbit didn’t much mind. His only objection was he wasn’t allowed to eat in the hole.
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The first one…meaning the second one.
What grinds my gears is that I personally would prefer that money be spent in more elevators, more escalators and improving facilities for people with disabilities, the elderly, etc. Even more plugs and Internet sockets would be nice. Then there is this:
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lol… on a similar subject, the main banqiao station only opens a couple of doors due to energy saving… i’ve never seen the main doors open. what is even the point.
It’s anti-suicide stuff. They are putting big screens with video loops of soothing forest scenery at all the JR stations which attract jumpers. Apparently it’s working, too.
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Forget the Mass Rapid Disco. Mass Rapid Swimming is where it’s at!
http://chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2017/07/10/499325/the-taipei.htm