Favorite # 5 – Solid Transportation Infrastructure
A couple of things that are very easy to take for granted no matter where you are – good public transportation and safety. These are two things that Taipei and Taiwan are world class at.
Taiwan in the last year opened a country-wide high speed rail, with help from a partnership from Japanese companies who created the Shinkansen (the fastest train in service in the world). Now you can now get from the top of the island, Taipei, to the bottom of the island, Kaochung, in only two hours.
More impressive is the subway system in Taipei, known as the MRT. It’s got one of the highest approval rating of any subway system in the world, and is easy to get around for us foreigners. Wired magazine did a nice summary of the Taiwan Subway System recently.
- “It carries 1.1 million people a day yet last year it experienced just 36 delays of more than five minutes”
- “With customer satisfaction topping 94 percent,…San Francisco Municipal Railway considers 65 percent customer satisfaction a good mark”
Image compliments of Taiwan HSR Website
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