Italian opera.
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I think I know what you’re referring to.
In other stations at other times, they seem to favour soothing music to try to calm down harried commuters. This can, at times, be undercut by video monitors / screens showing dramatic loud explosions from some Hollywood film being advertised in the stations. Based on these incoherent and at times conflicting approaches, it seems they have not quite figured out the overall impact they are aiming for.
Guy
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Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is coming to Taipei. They’re promoting the concert.
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I don’t remember the name of the station, but it was not far from the historical center and two years ago when I went there to the toilet, there was a guy directing the traffic - telling people which toilet cabin to go, because of weird people and also because the toilets were getting stuck all the time, so he had a plunger and had to use it all the time.
It was quite bizare experience to go to these toilets in London.
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Green line gates -at least in my station- have this jingle for the upcoming Taipei/New Taipei World Masters Games. Aside from the exit/enter station jingle.
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I see an academic paper (as yet unwritten):
Working title: Sonic topographies: The politics of sound in Tapei’s MRT system.
Guy
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Someone climbed over the barriers and went onto the tracks as a MRT train was approaching at FuZhong station (BanNan line). They died. Major disruption of service.
EDIT: English article
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A 23 year old women.
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I think these barriers are one of the very few things really good in Taiwan, but yeah, sometimes I thought, they are not so tall in most stations and could be climbed.
Still, why no one has stopped her?
Once, back home, I witnessed a drug addicted woman, who jumped into the tracks (no barriers) in the metro, but somehow got back, not sure if someone pulled her out, since the direct witnesses ran away.
Someone called ambulance and I stayed there with her and someone else helping me to make sure she won’t jump there again.
The look in her eyes, that someone cares, was priceless.
I haven’t seen her again, but I hope her life has gotten better at least a bit.
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New Taipei announces they will reveal plans for metro line for Zhonghe-Gongguan. 4 stations.
Taiwan News posted a map of approximate location of the 4 stations.
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For a more exact location check real estate purchases by involved politicians and their friends!
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I don’t see the need for that line. I live in Yonghe and know that the eastern part of the district is slightly more inconvenient, but buses are just fine. Building another line in that highly congested area will be very messy (like in buildings caving in messy). I don’t need that line, but at least it will further increase my property value, yay!
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100%. zero need for this.
With the money they would spend on this they could have 100% sidewalks in New Taipei.
So, they need this line to say there’s no money for sidewalks. Maybe some green paint if lucky.
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Metro raises property values.
Some places could do with some metro stops sure. But this is clearly just more property BS.
When is this country going to grow out of this property+cars centric abei mindset?
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Another knife attack in Taipei MRT. Fortunately, without serious injuries according to the news.
Not saying doing this in a golf club would be any better, but I always wonder why these people seem to choose regular folks for their vendettas/mental issues/whatever.
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They really didn’t know each other?
As per the police, the victim, the witnesses, the tv news, the tabloids and the Tianmu FB groups, no.
p.s.
And Taipei mayor
Cool a second overhead line like the brown line? Who makes the cars, Bomba or Matra? Route not fixed? Not reported? one would think the route would be fixed “before” construction?