Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/07/24
By: Bian Chin-feng, Lu Kang-chun and Bear Lee

Taipei, July 24 (CNA) Eight foreign languages, as well as traditional and simplified Chinese characters, will be available on ticket-selling systems along the Taipei-Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport metro line, according to the Taoyuan Metro Corp. (TMC).

To better serve riders on the line linking the Taipei Main Station and the Taoyuan airport, English, Japanese, Korean, German, Indonesian, Malaysian, Thai and Spanish, in addition to both traditional and simplified Chinese characters, will be provided as options for operating the ticketing systems in the stations along the line, TMC, which operates the line, said.

Passengers will be able to select their preferred language to access the information they want, TMC added.

The opening of the the Airport MRT, mainly invested by the Taipei, New Taipei and Taoyuan city governments, has been postponed several times for various reasons, but has now been rescheduled to start operations at the end of this year.      [FULL STORY]