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2015/05/09 06:56:54瀏覽169|回應2|推薦4 | |
What kind of stuff in Taipei I like most? It's public transpotation. As a senior citizen, I can enjoy the free-of-charge round-trip bus service thirty times per month to almost everywhere of municipal Taipei and its adjacent townships, and I can enjoy 60% off the normal mileage-based fares when I take subways. Whenever I take buses or subways, even during rush hours, almost all the time there are some vacant priority seats left for me to sit; even they are occupied by other seniors, there must have some nice guys yielding their seats to me actively. (Actually, I am not a decrepit old man that badly needs a seat in moving vehicles like in buses or in subways.). Thanks to Heaven, I don't have to drive to run whatever small errands like I did in America. Besides, the 敬老 EasyCard can also serve as the credential to have half-priced or free service for senior citizens in most of the cases available. A friend of mine, who recently survived a heart surgery, said the card is one of the most important ones for him in his life because it signifies that he's at least lived up to 65 years. It seems the public transportation in Taipei, especially for senior citizens, has been nothing to find fault with. Well, it's hard to say, and it all depends. For me I think the announcement for stops with four different laguages, i.e. Madarin, Southern Fujianese, Hakka, and English, seem so annoying that like some torture to me. Do we really need so may laguages to satisfy the needs of all passengers? The answer is absolutely a positive "No". But no politician dares to deal with it because language problem in Taiwan is one of many highly sensitive issues, so just let it be, and everybody is happy. P.S. If I remember correctly, there is only one language used for the announcement the buses and the subways in Mainland China: Mandarin, even no English for the passengers from other countires.
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