Taipei’s sparkling clean subway system failed to make the list of the Top 11 underground transit systems. Maybe it wasn’t “eye-catching”, “diverse” and “popular” enough, but it is clean, and nice, and it works.
MRT Doesn’t Make the List
March 2nd, 2007 · 8 Comments
Tags: The City
8 responses so far ↓
Jame Gumb // Mar 14, 2007 at 5:46 pm
How the hell is it that Beijing gets listed. When I lived in Beijing, it was a big circle. Then it became a circle with a line running through its bottom section. Now it is a circle with a line running through it with what looks like a cancerous growth on top.
That’s a system??
My fanny, that’s a system!
Anonymous // Apr 2, 2007 at 1:32 pm
lets face it, as much as we love taiwan, it ain’t all that great when compared to the likes of london’s tube or brazillian women-filled sao paulo station.
Squatting dirty hole for a toilet just does not cut the mustard on the world stage.
Prince Roy // Apr 5, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I agree, the inclusion of Beijing in that list is insane. Taipei definitely belongs. The MRT simply saved this city. There is no other way to put it.
Prince Roy’s Realm » Blog Archive » We Wuz Robbed // Apr 5, 2007 at 3:03 pm
[…] Via The Taipei Kid comes this list of the 11 Top Underground Transit Systems Throughout the World. Taipei’s MRT is not on it. This is an outrage, inexcusable in fact. It is hard to imagine a transit system that has a greater impact on its city than the MRT. I tell everyone I meet that it has simply transformed Taipei. What was once a congested, snarled mess of vehicle chaos, a city that was literally choking on its own fumes, is now one of the most convenient and commuter friendly places in which I’ve ever lived. Ask any old-timer who’s lived here longer than twelve years. They’ll tell you the same thing. […]
Poagao // Apr 5, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Same thing happened when Taipei 101 was built. A resounding silence from the world. It’s like we don’t exist.
Mark // Apr 6, 2007 at 2:29 am
I think you’re taking it a bit personally, Paogao. I mean, do you know what the last couple of tallest buildings in the world were? I seem to remember something about Malaysian Petronus towers, but I can’t say for sure when they were the tallest or what was the tallest before that.
This isn’t the 1920’s. People just don’t really care about the tallest building in the world that much anymore.
Poagao // Apr 6, 2007 at 10:30 am
Yeah, Petronus Towers and Sears Tower in Chicago. Big deals all around. Taipei 101? Nothing. It wasn’t even listed on the skyscraper pages until recently, and then only mentioned in passing. It’s not personal, it’s just bizarre. Just like this metro article.
Ben // Apr 18, 2007 at 11:49 pm
The fact that Beijing is rated ahead of Hong Kong (and the fact that Beijing is even rated at all) makes this list lose all its credibility in my book. Beijing’s archaic subway system is the worst I have ever been on. You actually have to wait in line to buy a ticket from a person, then wait in line again to give your ticket to another person…no automation. Not to even mention the fact that most Beijing destinations are unreachable via the subway, without taking a cab. Hong Kong MTR on the other hand is one of the most efficient public transit systems I have ever ridden on.
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