{"id":173,"date":"2007-03-08T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/03\/08\/taipeis-mrts-little-details\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:12:23","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:12:23","slug":"taipeis-mrts-little-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/03\/08\/taipeis-mrts-little-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Taipei&#8217;s MRT&#8217;s little details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple nice things that struck me about Taipei&#8217;s MRT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most MRT stations had clean public restrooms, clearly marked, with toilet paper and at least a few western toilets, in their unpaid areas.  Excellent.  In Hong Kong&#8217;s MTR, there are restrooms on the platforms in the paid areas&#8230; but they&#8217;re a secret!  You have to grovel before a platform supervisor (either in person or by a call button requesting &#8220;information&#8221;) before they&#8217;ll unlock those unmarked doors for your newfound urgent calling.<\/li>\n<li>People actually wait for alighting passengers before boarding.<\/li>\n<li>The EasyCard is fully-refundable, including deposit, after just five uses.  It&#8217;ll take you three months before you can get the full value of an Octopus back.  The Octopus is still better and I will still miss it terribly when I leave, though: I didn&#8217;t see any non-transit EasyCard uses in Taipei.  There was some kind of contactless credit card reader from Visa branded &#8220;Wave,&#8221; though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple nice things that struck me about Taipei&#8217;s MRT: Most MRT stations had clean public restrooms, clearly marked, with toilet paper and at least a few western toilets, in their unpaid areas. Excellent. In Hong Kong&#8217;s MTR, there are restrooms on the platforms in the paid areas&#8230; but they&#8217;re a secret! You have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}