View Full Version : Taipei MRT:Neihu Line June 09
Country Map (Colourful, Big & Slow; just the way I like 'em ;) ) which seems to show most of the current railways:-
http://202.39.225.132/uploadfile/folded_map/08305_TAIWAN.jpg
Schematic Map of Alishan Forest Rlwy:-
http://202.39.225.132/uploadfile/folded_map/07151_ES03M03.jpg
Schematic of Tamshui MRT:-
http://202.39.225.132/uploadfile/folded_map/07090_EN08M03.jpg
Schematic Taipei MRT:-
http://202.39.225.132/uploadfile/folded_map/08182_taipei_m.jpg
String on 'Taiwan (ROC) Maps':-
http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?p=5878#post5878
Description of the Touristic attractions of each line:-
http://www.worldpress.org/Asia/2012.cfm
Map Selection Page:-
http://202.39.225.132/jsp/Eng/html/map/index.jsp#
http://www.roc-taiwan.org/taiwan/2-visitor/map/map/x03.gif
http://www.roc-taiwan.org/taiwan/2-visitor/map/map/x04.gif
http://www.urbanrail.net/as/taip/taipei.htm
Taipei MRT (elsewhere):-
http://www.taiwan-map.com/EngMap/en_mrt.asp
http://home.trtc.com.tw/EINFO/eroutehome.asp
http://english.taipei.gov.tw/dorts/index.jsp
First time I looked at the photo below I thought the viaduct had collapsed. Can anyone figure out this strange photo?:
Neihu MRT line smoothly completes partial trial run
Neihu MRT line smoothly completes partial trial run
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/news_images/20071225/p20c.jpg
[Photo: The China Post - A MRT train is seen undergoing a trial run from the Sungshan Airport Station to the Chien Nan Station of the Neihu line. The entire line is slated to start official operation before the end of June 2009. (CNA)]
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The Neihu MRT (mass rapid transit) line smoothly completed its trail run from Sungshan Airport Station to Chien Nan Station yesterday morning, paving the way for a seamless connection with Chungshan Junior High School Station on the Mucha Line, according to the Department of Rapid Transit Systems (DORTS) under the Taipei City Government.
During an inspection tour of the pilot run, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin vowed to the public that the Neihu line will become fully operational by the end of June 2009 at the latest.
Hau said when it's completed, the Neihu MRT line will form a convenient transportation network connecting Sungshan Airport, Neihu Science Park, Nankang Software Park, and Nankang Exhibition Hall, significantly boosting the capital city's overall development.
DORTS officials said there will be 12 stations along the entire Mucha service, with one end at Mucha, and the other end connecting with the Bannan line.
A trial run of trains between the Huzhou Station and the Neihu Station is slated for completion before May 31, 2008, while pilot operation of the entire Neihu line and connection with the Mucha line will be finished before Aug. 31, 2008. Then the Neihu line will be fully open to the public by June 2009.
After the line is fully operational, DORTS officials added, it will take only 28 minutes to travel from Neihu to Taipei Railway Station, 20 minutes from Mucha to Sungshan Airport, and 14 minutes from Neihu to Sungshan Airport.
Of the 12 stations, only two will go underground, namely the Sungshang Airport Station and the Dazi Station, they said.
After an official run, the MRT trains will enter the station at a brief interval of 72 seconds during peak hours, and transportation volume is expected to run up to 28,400 passengers per hour.
There will be a total of 101 married pairs of trains operating on the Neihu line, which will all adopt an unmanned driving system.
During the trial run yesterday, most guests and reporters invited to take a ride on the Neihu MRT trains shared the view that the space inside the trains is relatively small and may make trains easily crowded.
In response, DORTS officials acknowledged that trains on the Neihu line are really smaller than those for the Mucha Line, adding that it's too late to change all the relevant designs.
The best countermeasure is the shorten the interval between trains.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2007/12/25/136249/Neihu%2DMRT.htm
Yappofloyd
09-01-08, 09:52 PM
There are dozens of pics which have been uploaded at http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=17578447#post17578447. However, it seems the line is still not operational.
Taiwan transit boom picks up speed - International Railway Journal Jan 08 Note: Extract
Kaohsiung was due to open its first metro line on December 30 2007: the 28.3km north-south Red Line, while construction of the 14.4km Orange Line will be completed this spring. The project has been implemented under a build, operate, transfer (BOT) contract awarded in 2000 to a consortium led by China Steel, Taiwan, and including Siemens. The operating period is 30 years, while construction should have taken six years.
The total cost of the project is $NT 181.4 billion, but the government was responsible for works totalling $NT 46.1 billion. The private sector funded $NT 30.5 billion of the remaining $NT 135.3 billion. Siemens is responsible for the electrical and mechanical project management, signalling, power supply, and building a fleet of 42 three-car trains all of which have been delivered to Kaohsiung. The signalling is designed for 2-minute headways, and the Red Line has a capacity of 609,500 passengers/day, while the Orange Line can transport 357,000 passengers/day.
Kaohsiung is now planning a circular light rail line called the Harbor Line. The BOT project would cost $NT 10.9 billion with a private-sector contribution of $NT 4.9 billion. Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Bureau hopes to issue a call for tenders this month and to award a contract by the end of the year. This would enable the first section to open in 2013.
About three-quarters of the 19.6km line would be on segregated rights-of-way. The Harbor Line is expected to carry 128,605 passengers in 2020, rising to 181,044 by 2020.
http://www.railjournal.com/altfeature2.shtml
Yappofloyd
09-01-08, 10:02 PM
I was aware that Taipei was expanding its metro by 2014. However, I didn't know that it the length of the network would be nearly doubled again by 2021.
Taiwan transit boom picks up speed - International Railway Journal Jan 08
Taiwan’s major cities are investing heavily in metro projects to cope with rapidly-changing travel patterns and worsening road traffic congestion, reports David Briginshaw.
TAIWAN’s largest city, Taipei, has an ambitious plan to double the size of its metro by 2014 and almost double it again by 2021. Kaohsiung at the south of the island is about to complete its first two metro lines, and is planning a light rail line, while Taichung plans to build its first metro line.
Taipei has set itself some ambitious objectives for its expanding rail network:
• providing a metro station within 500m of anywhere in the city centre
• reducing the average travel time within the Taipei metropolitan area to 30 minutes
• integrating the metro with Taiwan Railway Administration’s (TRA) conventional rail services, and the high-speed services provided by Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC), and
• increasing public transport usage in Taipei from 40 to 60%.
The Taipei metropolitan area is home to more than 5.5 million people, and the population is expected to reach 6.5 million by 2020. But according to Mr Chung-Cheng Kao, chief engineer of Taipei Department of Rapid Transport Systems (Dorts), which is responsible for expanding the metro, the city’s suburban population is growing rapidly as people move out of the congested city centre, where the population is now falling.
This means people are travelling much greater distances than before. At the same time, a rapid rise in personal income has triggered an explosion in private car ownership. These two developments have quickly overwhelmed the road network and made the case for expanding the metro even stronger.
The existing 76.6km metro network is carrying 1.12 million passengers a day. Dorts is currently engaged in adding another 79.7km under Stage 2 of expanding the metro. When this is completed in 2014, traffic is expected to increase to 2.3 million a day, but Kao says this is a conservative estimate. Another 121.5km of metro lines are being studied for Stage 3 which would boost daily ridership to 3.6 million by 2021.
Stage 2 will cost $NT 300 billion ($US 9.3 billion) to implement including the electrical and mechanical element. Funding is split 70:30 between central and local government, and Kao says there is no problem financing Stage 2. Stage 3 will cost an additional $NT 430 billion.
Taipei currently has a mixture of interconnected conventional heavy metro lines and a fully-automated light metro line known as the Muzha Line. The latter was originally equipped by Matra, France (now part of Siemens), but Bombardier won a contract to update the original train control system and the fleet of 51 trains, as well as supply 101 new cars for an extension of the line to Neihu and Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre.
“The new Circular Line will also be fully automated with driverless trains, but we want a new design of train for this line,” says Kao. Dorts will go out to tender shortly for a system contract for the Circular Line. “For the new heavy metro lines, we will use the same signalling system as we have now because we want to maintain compatibility with the existing heavy rail network,” says Kao. “However, under Stage 2 all stations will have full-height platform screen doors.”
Kawasaki, Japan, is currently supplying 321 cars both to expand capacity on the existing network and for some of the new lines being built under Stage 2. Delivery of these trains should be completed next year. The stainless steel cars have four sliding doors on each side and are mounted on Kawasaki’s bolsterless bogies designed for speeds up to 80km/h. Traction equipment includes the latest IGBT inverter control.
Dorts also has 23 six-car trains on order from Kawasaki for the Xinyi and Shongsha lines, while Alstom and CTCI, Taiwan, will install the signalling and power supply. Construction is underway of a rail link between Taipei, Taoyuan International Airport, which serves Taipei, Taoyuan THSRC station, and Jhongli. It will provide a 10-minute-interval limited-stop express service between Taipei Main Station and the airport, and a 10-minute-interval stopping service. Airline check-in and baggage-handling facilities will be provided at two stations in Taipei and at Taoyuan THSRC station.
The express service will take 35 minutes between Taipei and the airport, and the commuter service 70 minutes end to end. It is hoped to open the majority of the line in 2011, and to complete the project by 2013. The express service is expected to carry 19,000 passengers/day and the commuter service 81,000 passengers/ day initially, rising to 43,000 and 116,000 respectively by 2040.
Taipei City is responsible for the urban section in Taipei, while the Bureau of High Speed Rail (BOHSR) is responsible for the majority of the project. Central government is funding the $NT 93.6 billion scheme which involves the construction of a 51km standard-gauge railway with 22 stations. Almost 11km of the line will be underground and the remainder elevated. The line will be electrified at 750V dc third-rail. Marubeni, Japan, has a turnkey contract for the electrical and mechanical element of the project, and Kawasaki will supply 11 five-car express emus and 17 four-car commuter trains. Taoyuan airport’s three terminals will each have a station.
One of the new Siemens trains for Kaohsiung metro under test prior to opening of the first line. Kaohsiung was due to open its first metro line on December 30 2007: the 28.3km north-south Red Line, while construction of the 14.4km Orange Line will be completed this spring. The project has been implemented under a build, operate, transfer (BOT) contract awarded in 2000 to a consortium led by China Steel, Taiwan, and including Siemens. The operating period is 30 years, while construction should have taken six years.
The total cost of the project is $NT 181.4 billion, but the government was responsible for works totalling $NT 46.1 billion. The private sector funded $NT 30.5 billion of the remaining $NT 135.3 billion. Siemens is responsible for the electrical and mechanical project management, signalling, power supply, and building a fleet of 42 three-car trains all of which have been delivered to Kaohsiung. The signalling is designed for 2-minute headways, and the Red Line has a capacity of 609,500 passengers/day, while the Orange Line can transport 357,000 passengers/day.
Kaohsiung is now planning a circular light rail line called the Harbor Line. The BOT project would cost $NT 10.9 billion with a private-sector contribution of $NT 4.9 billion. Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Bureau hopes to issue a call for tenders this month and to award a contract by the end of the year. This would enable the first section to open in 2013. About three-quarters of the 19.6km line would be on segregated rights-of-way. The Harbor Line is expected to carry 128,605 passengers in 2020, rising to 181,044 by 2020.
The city of Taichung, which is about half way along the Taipei - Kaohsiung high-speed line, hopes to start work soon on the construction of a 16.5km light metro to link the city centre with both the THSRC and TRA stations. BOHSR is responsible for the project and plans to award a concession of up to 30 years to operate it. The metro will cost a minimum of $NT 28.7 billion to implement. It is hoped to open the line in 2012, but this could slip a little as the government has not given the project the green light yet. Taiwan’s major cities are clearly investing heavily in rail transport to help solve their urban congestion problems, and will soon have metros to be proud of.
http://www.railjournal.com/altfeature2.shtml
Map on urbanrail - http://www.urbanrail.net/as/taip/taipei.htm
doseiai
10-01-08, 03:02 PM
Taipei and its environs in the next few years is really gonna get a lot of rail public transit...subway lines, HSR extensions, but Kaohsiung and Taichung I don't forsee much going on...even with the long delayed connection in Zuoying.
Kaohsiung people are very car oriented and it will take a long time for that to change, and Taichung even more so.
Truth is, while Taipei can always use more transit options, the city is pretty well served already with the combination of bus, subway, HSR, and for residents, scooters. The real sad part is Jakarta and Manila, both set to have as many residents as Taiwan itself in the coming decade...both so far behind they make Bangkok look good.
Kaohsiung metro: (not officially open yet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbMHs6FLLxE&mode=related&search=
Looking at the picture and the description it seems that this station uses a system of fairly low platform doors (which are designed like other systems to coincide with the train doors). The photograph and report suggest either that there is no barrier between the platform doors or that it is low enough to clamber over. Anyone seen these doors who can inform us?:
MRT station suicide attempt fails
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[Photo: The China Post - Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation installed automatic doors on four platforms at Taipei Main Station (Danshui and Nangang lines) in 2006 in order to increase passenger safety in one of the busiest subway stations in town. (Dimitri Bruyas, The China Post)]
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
By Dimitri Bruyas, The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A 70-year-old man was seriously injured yesterday after he jumped onto the rails at Hanshan Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station as the subway train was coming to a halt.
The man, surnamed Cheng, leapt onto the tracks at the Kunyang-Yongning line at 10:11 a.m., as the train heading toward Taipei Main Station was entering the station.
Surveillance footage4 showed Cheng's wife attempting to hold him back before he was grabbed under the decelerating train in an apparent suicide attempt.
According to Chinese-language media, however, the victim's family denied Cheng attempted suicide that morning and complained about MRT staff, who allegedly "showed no reaction after the incident."
Cheng's wife said she telephoned her son, who immediately arrived at the subway platform to help his father who was pinned under the train, with his left leg severed.
"Look how long it took, [our] son came by himself to save his father ... there are no contingency measures at the MRT station. In the end you have to send your own people for the rescue. This is ridiculous!" shouted the victim's younger brother.
He denied his brother had been depressed after a long illness, stressing that on Sunday night Cheng had a pleasant dinner with his family and sang songs happily.
After the incident, Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC), which supervises MRT operations, closed the track and opened another one for two-way traffic.
The incident caused suspension of MRT services for 38 minutes.
The last major MRT accident occurred in June 2007, when a 48-year-old woman jumped to her death as a train was approaching in Longshan Temple MRT Station.
"There were four major incidents last year at Taipei MRT stations," said Chao Hsiung-fei, TRTC's vice president, noting that three of four of the incidents were suicide attempts.
He explained that in order to increase safety, TRTC installed platform doors on six platforms at Taipei Main Station (Danshui and Nangang lines), and Zhongxiao Fuxing Station (Nangang Line) in 2006, in addition to thoroughly revising car-borne signaling systems on the company's 64 trains.
"The 1.45-meter-high doors improved the safety of passengers waiting on the platform ... but the system doesn't aim directly at discouraging suicide attempts," Chao said.
"It is difficult to install platform doors on metro lines that are already operating," he continued, noting the system will be installed in new subway stations only in the future.
He added that the "Track Intrusion Detection System" could on the contrary be expanded to all subway stations by the end of this year.
The system uses infrared and radio detectors to detect unusual movement in the track area, along the platform edges and gates.
If a passenger steps into one the surveillance areas, an alarm is activated, sending a warning to the station's control panel, activating a remote traffic light -- installed 150 meters from the platform -- and warning the driver to decelerate.
It takes roughly 100 meters to stop a subway train in case of emergency.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2008/01/22/139992/MRT%2Dstation.htm
MRT celebrates three billionth passenger
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
By Dimitri Bruyas, The China Post
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei's Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT) has now transported 3 billion people since its opening in 1996, MRT authorities said yesterday, noting the results of the local subway network have been beyond all original expectations.
They added that the accumulated transport volume of the new Maokong Gondola exceeded 3 million passengers as of February 17. [ http://www.angkor.com/2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=3138 ]
"We have faith in the central government's intentions to financially back the Taipei government's plans to further extend the subway network in the future," said Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-bin during an event held at Taipei Station to mark the occasion.
Hau added that the eight subway lines already in operation -- out of nine lines originally planned -- carry up to 1.2 million people daily, before lauding his predecessor, opposition Kuomintang presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, for "planting a tree that has allowed him to relax in a cool place."
Ma cited a report conducted by the Railway Technology Strategy Center of Imperial College London on 25 existing transport systems globally, which has ranked Taipei's MRT as the most reliable public transit system in the world since 2004.
He added that the Easy Card system currently in use in Taipei should also be extended to parking, highways and the railway system nationwide in the future.
In related news, Chinese-language media reported that afternoon that a subway train on the Muzha line delayed about 1,000 passengers, due to technical malfunctions.
Around 9 a.m. a train leaving Daan Station stopped, suddenly delaying MRT service for about 15 minutes and affecting nearly 1,000 passengers travelling onboard various trains of the Muzha line.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2008/03/04/145489/MRT%2Dcelebrates.htm
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Taipei Metro to serve Nankang by year end
The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei Metro's Nankang line has no station at Nankang.
The northern end of the line is at Kunyang, 2.5 kilometers away from the Nankang railroad station.
A 2.5-kilometer extension will be completed by the end of this year, a Taipei Metro spokesman said yesterday. Construction on the extension of the line under the ground started in 2003.
"The line will be extended to the Nankang railroad station before the year is out," the spokesman said.
He said the new Metro station at Nankang will be a hub of urban transportation in the northern district of Taipei. "People can get on trains at Nankang for connection to the high-speed railway and Yilan to the east and Taipei on down to the south," he added.
Another extension will be completed at the end of 2010. The Nankang line will then reach the planned Nankang Museum station.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/%20business/2008/04/16/152086/Taipei%2DMetro.htm
Friday, May 30, 2008
Taipei mayor studying cut in MRT ride costs
The China Post news staff
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin said yesterday the city government will consider lowering the ticket price for taking the mass rapid transit (MRT) networks to help people in the Greater Taipei area cope with the soaring energy costs, reduce traffic accidents, and limit environmental pollution problem.
Hau inspected the traffic flow at major intersections of boulevards and expressways to gain a first-hand understanding of the sharp surge in the number of motorcyclists.
Steeply rising fuel costs have set off a dramatic shift in the transport pattern of the capital city.
Bus companies and Taipei Rapid Transit Corp. (TRTC), which operates the MRT system that extends to several cities in the neighboring Taipei County, reported steep increases in the number of passengers.
Even the Taiwan Railway Administration said passengers taking short-distance train rides are also on the rise.
But motor-scooters posted the highest increase as many motorcyclists who have upgraded to the four-wheel vehicles decided now to scale back to the scooters in order to save on fuel bills.
Despite safety hazards and pollution, the high mobility, speed, and fuel efficiency offered by motor-scooters have seen them as the most popular means of transport.
Many people working on late night shifts have a greater reliance on the scooters because there is little or no public transport available after midnight.
In addition to the working class, less affluent parents often use scooters to take their children to school since they cannot afford comfortable cars.
But scooter riders' safety and air pollution has become a major concern of Mayor Hau, who formerly served as chief of the Cabinet-level Environmental Protection Administration.
He encouraged the public to shift from cars and scooters to public transport to avoid traffic incidents, cut down on fuel costs, ease traffic congestion and improve air quality.
Hau said the city's Department of Transportation and TRTC will work out measures to attract more people to use public transport to help solve the city's problem of an increasing number of scooters over the last three years.
Statistics compiled by the department show that the city's seven bridges linking cities in the adjacent Taipei County saw the passing of 75,000 scooters per day on average in 2006.
But the number has increased to 89,000 earlier this year, Hau said.
Officials at the municipal government expect the figure may shoot up to 100,000 soon if crude oil and gasoline prices continue rising.
The Hua Jiang bridge connecting the city and Taipei County is crossed by about 7,000-8,000 scooters during rush hour every morning.
The number sometimes surges to nearly 10,000. Such a volume is almost beyond the bridge's capacity in terms of space and the lanes reserved for scooters.
The massive scooter volume also causes great concern in terms of traffic safety, Hau said, noting that recent statistics show seven major scooter accidents occurred in the city over about two weeks in early May, causing six deaths.
Hau said he is glad to see more motorists give up vehicles.
But he also hoped motorists will choose buses or the MRT system over scooters when coping with the skyrocketing energy costs.
Lowering fare prices for the MRT system will be considered to help lure more customers, he said.
But other officials said the city government currently has no plan to reduce the costs for taking buses.
Yet they stressed that commuters using the electronic EasyCard to take both MRT and buses at the same time have been entitled to big discounts in total costs.
Statistics complied earlier this year show the public transportation systems in the Greater Taipei area now serve over 2.8 million people per day, including 1.68 million taking buses and 1.12 million riders for the MRT networks.
But scooters and motorcycles remained the most popular transport means, chosen by 28.8 percent of people for convenience and relatively lower maintenance costs, followed by the MRT networks, 25 percent; buses and private cars, 21.1 percent each; and taxicabs, 2 percent.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2008/05/30/158707/Taipei%2Dmayor.htm
Taipei metro riders up in first four months: DGBAS
CNA
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Passengers took nearly 145 million rides on Taipei's mass rapid transit network in the first four months of this year, up by some 8.7 percent year on year, a government agency reported yesterday.
According to the Cabinet-level Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS), the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation earned NT$3.17 billion (US$104 million) in revenues during the four-month period.
DGBAS officials forecast that a higher number of passengers will travel on the city's MRT system in the months ahead, pushing ridership for 2008 above the previous year's level of 416 million.
According to the officials, the number of MRT passengers and scooter riders in Taipei shot up the day after Premier Liu Chao-shiuan announced fuel price hikes Tuesday, and to capitalize on the trend, Taipei City Mayor Hau Lung-bin offered new incentives Friday to boost MRT ridership even higher.
Hau announced that people who use their Easy Cards to ride the MRT system will receive a 25 percent discount on fares from June 1 to Aug. 31.
The measure is expected to attract some 24,000 additional commuters to ride the city's mass rapid transit system, Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation officials estimated.
At the same time, the number of passengers traveling on the north-south Taiwan high speed rail system climbed to 17.82 million in the January-April period -- 1.3 times higher than the year-earlier level, according to DGBAS statistics.
During the same four month period, passenger arrivals and departures at Taiwan's airports totaled 12.16 million, an 8.4 percent decrease year on year.
Impacted by the launch of the high speed railway service in Jan. 2007, airports serving domestic routes saw a particularly large 24.6 percent drop in the number of passenger arrivals and departures compared to a year ago.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national%20news/2008/05/31/158861/Taipei%2Dmetro.htm
Neihu MRT line to operate by next June
The China Post news staff
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin hopped aboard a successful test run yesterday on the Neihu MRT (mass transit rail) and followed up with a redoubled guarantee of the line's June 2009 public inauguration.
Hau's trial toured the Neihu expansion from its Chien Nan to Huzhou stations. Slated next for inspection are runs from Chien Nan to the Sungshan Airport and from the Huzhou Station to the Neihu Science Park, once line construction completes this December.
The Neihu service will clock 28 minutes between Neihu Station and Taipei Main Station, and 14 minutes from Taipei Main Station to the Sungshan Airport, estimated Commissioner Chang Chi-te of Taipei City's Department of Rapid Transit Systems (DORTS).
The Neihu MRT extends the existing Mucha line from the former endpoint Chungshan Station and will host 12 stations across 14.5 km. DORTS officials reported that throughout its construction phase, Neihu has consistently beaten progress deadlines, be it on the engineering systems or automated fare booths.
The Mucha fleet currently is comprised of 51 train pairs, DORTS official Tsai Tian-he said, to be joined shortly by Neihu's 101 pairs. The Neihu cars, produced by Canada's Bombardier Corporation, come equipped with state-of-the-art automation capable of control for distances up to 10 km. Cars are also fitted with luggage racks, for the convenience of airport-bound passengers, announced Chang.
Fares for the Neihu line remain in the air and are proving difficult to fix given the fluctuating economy, according to the United Evening News.
The Neihu MRT is a segment of the DORTS city expansion initiative, which expects to introduce the Nangang line by 2010. The Neihu line will be linked to Nangang via a station at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Chang said.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/local/taipei/2008/08/05/168611/Neihu-MRT.htm
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