I think I know having lived near houshanpi and songshan a long time ago, but it’s still hazy for me, is it where there’s a large block of social housing near the mountains?
It’s around there, yes, located between the eastern blue line stations (Yongchun and Houshanpi) and the hills to the south.
Guy
I debated reopening the 2025 topic but ultimately decided on just posting it here.
I expressed my opposition towards LCD screens being used for station information several times over the course of the years, especially as they were implemented in buses and subsequently the MRT for the numerous points of failure these technologies provide.
Now it’s started happening as I fear.
LCDs installed on MRT trains in 2010 are starting to degrade and turn yellow while suffering from vinegar syndrome.
As more of these degrade, they will make the trains here look more rundown.
Meanwhile:
LED matrices look as new as they did when they rolled off the lot.
If I want to ride trains run by sciemi, I would go ride Trenitalia!
I have long thought that the “enhanced” (how I hate that corporate speak!) MRT design—removing seats, removing the center poles, etc.—sucks donkey balls. It seems others share my opinion.
Guy
Is that near the hiking area? I did not note anything out of the ordinary. I do live in wanhua though..
The hiking area has four mountains (the Four Beasts). This would be the station for getting up Tiger mountain. If you want to hike Elephant mountain, Xiangshan station is still the closest stop.
Not only did they apparently need a five character name for this station; they added an additional five character secondary name to it to denote “Songshan Cihu Temple”! 
Meanwhile, following a Taiwan Plus report on the Red Line extension, there was this illuminating exchange in the comments section on youtube:
Dude 1: I am in Shenzhen and they are opening entire new lines with dozens of stations every year. It takes Taiwan 10 years to open a single station? 
Dude 2: We have to actually listen to different environmental, labor, and resident stakeholders. And somehow we still manage to have a higher GDP per capita than China without even approaching its levels of rampant inequality, not to mention its repression of workers, minorities, and anyone who dares to speak out. I’ve lived in major cities in China, and people here are far happier and more relaxed on the whole than the people I met in my many years there. The worst off in Taiwan are far better off than the worst off there, and everyone has some say in how society is run. That means real unions, real elections, real recognition for Indigenous peoples, and real strides toward gender parity in government, not to mention GDP growth lately hovers around 11 percent. But keep telling yourself the speed of unimpeded government evictions, land grabs, and construction projects is the ultimate barometer of social success. What you think doesn’t matter to your leaders regardless (and I wish all those who wish to change that good luck).
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Guy