Taiwan Construction begun on world’s longest single-mast, asymmetric cable-stayed structure (a bridge in Danshui)

[hansioux]

The current setup is that rapid transit goes as far as Tamsui station, and the rest of Tamsui to Bali is serviced by a last mile transit. I think the main issue is that Tamsui is really far away from downtown Taipei anyway. Even if you live near Tamsui station, taking the Red Line to downtown Taipei would take 40 minutes. So, any additional time that it takes to get to Tamsui station on the Tamhai LRT only adds to that journey.

Although, what other option is there? Extend the Red Line all the way to Bali or do you wish to extend the Red Line all the way to Taoyuan airport?

[afterspivak]

@bz

I see a pedestrian way off to the side, but I can’t tell if there’s anything in between besides the supporting spans - is that very low guardrail the only thing keeping people from doing a header off the side in case of accident?

My post on this topic could be thought of as aspirational (what I hoped would happen) rather than an informed comment on engineering design, which clearly is not adequate in dealing with the stupidly reckless driving culture here.

I’m thinking we need some kind of button that, when pressed, would eject the stupid reckless clowns into the air and down into the river below. Hopefully the problems would be fixed, one stupid reckless clown at a time.

Guy