Taoyuan Metro
| Taoyuan Metro - 桃園 捷運 | |
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| Basic information | |
| Company headquarters | Taoyuan |
| Web presence | https://www.tymetro.com.tw |
| owner | Taoyuan Metro Corporation - 桃園 大眾 捷運 股份有限公司 |
| Employee | 1061 (2017) |
| Lines | |
| railroad | 1 (2019) |
| statistics | |
| Passengers | approx. 57,000 daily (2017) |
| Stops | 21 (2019) |
| Length of line network | |
| Railway lines | 51.03 km |
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The Taoyuan Metro is a rapid transit system intended to service the Taoyuan area in the Republic of China (Taiwan) . The planned network will consist of five lines. The system opened for commercial operations on March 2, 2017 with the opening of the route from Taipei Main Station to Taiwan Taoyuan Airport , the Taoyuan Airport MRT .
Infrastructure
Trains
The Taoyuan Airport Line has two types of trains: Commuter trains and Express trains. As one of the goals of the route is to get passengers from Taoyuan Airport to downtown Taipei faster, the express trains only stop at A1 Taipei Main Station , A3 New Taipei Industrial Park , A8 Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , A12 Airport Terminal 1 , A13 Airport Terminal 2 , A18 Taoyuan HSRT Station (located in Zhongli ) and A21 Huanbei , the current terminus. Local trains also stop at every other station.
A single trip from Taipei Main Station to the airport costs NT $ 150 (2019) and takes 39 minutes from A13 Airport Terminal 2 to Taipei Main Station A1 by express, 52 minutes by commuter.
Free WiFi
Free WiFi is available on the Taoyuan Metro system.
Route map
construction
The official start of construction was on June 26, 2006. The trial operation began on February 2, 2017, and the airport route was officially opened on March 2, 2017.
Web links
- Taoyuan Metro (English)
- Taoyuan Metro (Chinese)
- Taoyuan Airport MRT route map English-Chinese
- Info leaflet (English; PDF)
- Taoyuan Metro Annual Report 2017 (Chinese, English; PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taoyuan Metro Annual Report 2017 (PDF; Chinese - English)
- ^ A b Taoyuan Metro About Us. In: tymetro.com.tw. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Taoyuan Metro Passenger Guide MRT Map. In: tymetro.com.tw. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
- ^ Taoyuan Metro. In: tymetro.com.tw. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .