Florian Stöger

Wild how local/suburban trains here are equipped for hyper-inefficient conductor door operation, but do nothing to speed it up in the slightest – opening alone takes forever, since the conductor has to open the door where they're standing, step onto the platform, and only then open all the others.

Ofc the same happens in reverse with closing, and in the end even the door where the conductor is standing doesn't close right away – it makes door closing warning beeps first, and only then finally closes. Whole process just takes forever, and ofc repeats at every single stop no matter how small

New Taipei's new elevated Sanying Line – opened in June 2026 – is somehow insanely bad - Extremely tight curves everywhere (10 km/h!) - Goes just 20 km/h before, during and after even the gentler curves - Overcrowded 2-car trains that run only every 8 mins (mid-day) - Overbuilt stations

Even on its straight segments, whoever designed and runs this line apparently decided trains should just crawl almost the entire time

New Taipei's new elevated Sanying Line – opened in June 2026 – is somehow insanely bad - Extremely tight curves everywhere (10 km/h!) - Goes just 20 km/h before, during and after even the gentler curves - Overcrowded 2-car trains that run only every 8 mins (mid-day) - Overbuilt stations

Taipei has somehow found a way to have boarding queue decals that are even worse – the queue blocks the entire left or right half of the doors, and which side it is varies from door to door, meaning there is no way for exiting passengers to anticipate if they're about to get overrun

The narrow-gauge ICE 1 are still in service <3 (We were under the impression Taiwan Railways replaced all those locos?)

Painted sidewalks in Kaohsiung – not great, but still an above-average pedestrian experience by Taiwan standards

#notalleastasianmetros

Cycling among the hundreds of mopeds is much healthier in mainland China (where all of them are electric), but thanks to the excellent Taiwan-wide bikeshare system and its geared bikes, it's infinitely faster and more fun here Some more Taichung, Taiwan cycling thoughts …

(*22:00*, one of main roads in the area: 72 sec 🤡)

Cycling among the hundreds of mopeds is much healthier in mainland China (where all of them are electric), but thanks to the excellent Taiwan-wide bikeshare system and its geared bikes, it's infinitely faster and more fun here Some more Taichung, Taiwan cycling thoughts …

Bike infrastructure otoh is extremely lacking. The only physically separated bike infrastructure I've seen here so far is on the elevated MRT corridor opened in 2021, and even there the bike paths are nonsensically signed as shared 'yield to peds' and literally go straight through bus shelters

Cycling among the hundreds of mopeds is much healthier in mainland China (where all of them are electric), but thanks to the excellent Taiwan-wide bikeshare system and its geared bikes, it's infinitely faster and more fun here Some more Taichung, Taiwan cycling thoughts …

Bluesky

Yes, this *six-platform* light rail interchange station that sits *under a building* absolutely needs platform roofs, why are you asking

Find yourself someone who invests in you as much as Hong Kong invests in this ridiculously low-capacity light rail system

Seeing so, so many MTR station escalators in HK with staff standing around in front of them just to hold usage instruction signs, I'll never make fun of mainland China metros again for playing nonstop escalator usage instructions through loudspeakers

Under-highway trail and activities

Most accessible wheelchair ramp

Hello from the world's most practical library

Data Display says September's most popular book was Red Star Over China 🇨🇳

Hello from the world's most practical library

First time on a Chinese-built aircraft 🇨🇳

Woah