OLD WEST BUS STATION CLOSES DOWN, MOVES TO TRAIN STATION|台北西站遷移 有旅客找不到地方搭車

On Oct. 29, the Taipei City West Bus Station closed for good. From Oct. 30, all buses will depart from the First North Door and Third East Door at Taipei Main Station. Although the city government made many advance announcements, there were still passengers who went to the wrong place. These tourists from Hong Kong went to Taipei West Bus Station only to find the door locked. They asked the station staff where the terminal was relocated to and were soon on their way. This family wanted to go to Jinshan only found out about the relocation when they were actually at the bus station. ==PASSENGER== Where is the Third East door? I'm not too sure, Reporter: So you didn't know it changed from today? No, I didn't know. From the morning of Oct. 30, all routes that were previously scheduled to depart from and arrive at the Taipei West Bus Station were moved to Taipei Main Station. Routes boarded in Building A will now depart from the First North Door and Third East Door at the Taipei Main Station. Those moved to the Third East Door are the airport route, due to the large number of passengers during holiday periods causing congestion. ==CHU CHEN TSUO Chief Taipei City Public Transport Office Planning Office == On the first day both the operators and passengers were becoming used it, so apart from doing announcements we are also looking at the situation on the ground and asking operators to move people along faster. Taipei City Public Transport Office said that as holiday mornings are the peak time for travel to the airport, it asked transport operators to add services, and to guide queuing. To avoid tourists going to the wrong bus terminal Taipei City government printed announcements in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English and placed them in the MRT station and airports for passenger information. TRANSLATED BY：CLARE LEAR 來自香港的觀光客，跑到台北西站要搭客運才發現大門深鎖，趕快詢問站務人員，才知道客運站已遷移，而這一家準備要到金山去玩的旅客，也是到現場看到遷移路線通知，才知道跑錯地方。 ==旅客== 東三門在哪邊啊 我搞不清楚 (所以不曉得他今天要搬) 我不知道耶 週日早上開始，台北西站搭車點全部調整到台北車站，原本在A棟上車的路線，分別遷移到台北車站的北一門，和東三門，其中遷移到東三門的台北往機場路線，因為假日搭乘人數眾多，一度壅塞。 ==台北市公共運輸處規劃綜合規劃科科長 朱宸佐== 第一天的輸運狀況 我們業者跟民眾都還在熟悉 所以說我們現在除了做宣傳以外 另外我們也會視現場的狀況 去要求業者要趕快把人輸運走 公運處表示，由於假日早上是前往機場的尖峰時段，已要求業者加密班次輸運，和引導周邊排隊動線，而為了避免觀光客跑錯搭車點，北市府也印製了包括中日韓英語的宣傳小卡，在捷運站和機場供旅客參考。 記者 薛宜家 張國樑 台北報導