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Airport MRT under construction under the future site of Taoyuan Airport Terminal 3 (2009). The BOHSR of the MOTC oversaw construction, [38] which began in 2006 and was scheduled for completion in 2013 but was plagued by multiple delays. [39] The entire system was budgeted at NT$113.85 billion. [40]
Airport Terminal 2 (Chinese: 機場第二航廈站) is a station on the Taoyuan Airport MRT located in Dayuan, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. [1] The station is located directly under Terminal 2 of Taoyuan International Airport and opened for commercial service on 2 March 2017. [2] This underground station has two side platforms and two tracks. [3]
An extension is underway towards the future third terminal building, at which time the skytrain service will be limited to airport staff and passport-checked passengers only. The Taoyuan Airport MRT is to serve general public access between the terminals, the Airport Hotel, and the Taoyuan-Taipei area.
Overcrowding of the airport in recent years prompted the construction of Terminal 2, which was opened on 29 July 2000, [5] with half of its gates operational; EVA Air was the first airline to move into Terminal 2. The remaining gates opened on 21 January 2005 for China Airlines, making China Airlines the only airline to operate from both terminals.
The two Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways and Taiwan High Speed Rail, have several overlaps in station names. See below Taiwan High Speed Rail section for their relations in detail. There are five rapid transit systems in Taiwan: Taipei Metro, opened in March 1996, serves the core of Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area.
Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 2,025 kilometres (1,258 mi) (as of 2015) of railway networks. [2] Though no longer as dominant as it once was, rail transport is an extremely important form of transportation in Taiwan due to high population density, especially along the densely populated western corridor.
The station is 90.4 metres (297 ft) long and 32.8 metres (108 ft) wide. It opened for trial service on 2 February 2017, and for commercial service 2 March 2017. [4] [2] The station is located on the New Taipei side of Linkou Plateau, near the border with Taoyuan. Both adjacent stations are in Taoyuan.
Taipei Main Station is the eastern terminus of the Taoyuan Airport MRT in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan.Located roughly 250 metres (820 ft) west of Taipei railway station and 200 metres (660 ft) east of Beimen metro station, the station is connected to the Taipei railway station through a 115 metres (377 ft) long underground walkway, [1] and to Beimen station through another underground ...