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The section Industrial & tourist railways could have the Pingxi, Neiwan and Jiji lines added to it. They are all branch lines operated by Taiwan Railways and popular with tourists. Davidreid 01:23, 31 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"extremely extensive"[edit]

Why is a network of 1496 km "extremely extensive"? --JensMueller (talk) 14:46, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Urban transit list table[edit]

Name	Taipei Metro	Kaohsiung MRT	Taoyuan Metro	New Taipei Metro	Taichung Metro
Logo			File:Taoyuan Metro logo seal only.svg	File:New Taipei Metro (Logo Only).svg
Chinese	臺北捷運	高雄捷運	桃園捷運	新北捷運	臺中捷運
Taiwanese	Tâi-pak Chia̍t-ūn	Ko-hiông Chia̍t-ūn	Thô-hn̂g Chia̍t-ūn	Sin-pak Chia̍t-ūn	Tâi-tiong Chia̍t-ūn
Hakka	Thòi-pet Chia̍p-yun	Kô-hiùng Chhia̍p-yun	Thò-yèn Chhia̍p-yun	Sîn-pet Chhia̍p-yun	Thòi-chûng Chhia̍p-yun
Service area	Taipei, New Taipei	Kaohsiung	Taoyuan, Taipei, New Taipei	Tamsui, New Taipei	Taichung
Date opening	28 March 1996	9 March 2008	2 March 2017	December 2018	2020
No. of lines	4 MRT, 1 MCS (2 MCS u/c)	2 MRT, 1 LRT	1 MRT (1 MCS u/c)	1 MCS u/c, 2 LRT u/c	1 MCS u/c
No. of stations	117	52	21	14 (Danhai light rail)	18 (Green line)
System length	131.2 km (82 mi)	51.4 km (32 mi)	51.03 km (32 mi)	13.99 km (9 mi) (Danhai light rail)	16.71 km (10 mi) (Green line)
Annual Ridership	746.067 million (2017)	64.321 million (2017)	17.346 million (2017)	—	—

The above table has the following problems:

Vertical layout would cause space issues once more systems are added
Referring to Taiwanese Hokkien as goes against Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Languages or dialects
Does not make a clear distinction between opened systems and u/c ones
Opening dates for u/c systems are expected dates and un-sourced; term 'date opening' grammatically incorrect for opened systems; dmy format does not sort correctly while ymd does
For Taipei, does not note that stations include doubly counted ones
'MRT' and 'MCS' are not commonly used terms; distinction between MRT and MCS not notable enough for the average reader (e.g. Taipei is usually considered to just have 5 lines)
Service area for New Taipei is inconsistent (Tamsui is a district of New Taipei)

Szqecs (talk) 17:16, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In response

There are only two or three other systems are planned or in construction in Taiwan (Hsinchu and Tainan). There is no space issues if these two or three more systems are added. And, I can see an obvious space issue if putting other languages to the horizontal table.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Languages or dialects states "The best name for each particular variety often depends on the article and its context", so there is no violation here.
to 7 can be fixed by modifying the table. For 4, wikipedia has a Template:Dts that can sort dmy and mdy correctly.

Also, the Taipei Metro's 117 stations does not count Maokong Gondola stations. Fizikanauk (talk) 18:02, 20 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Left / Right[edit]

Mention which systems "drive on the left" (TRA), and which "drive on the right" (HSR, MRT). Jidanni (talk) 14:56, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]