OK! Kaohsiung MRT Station 5 will be renamed next June “City Council and Siziwan Station are broken up” | ETtoday News Cloud | LINE TODAY

Reporter Xu Youru/Reporting from Kaohsiung

Kaohsiung Light Rail and MRT will have new stations opening. Kaohsiung MRT has re-examined the station names of each line and determined that 5 stations will be renamed. The changes will be made in conjunction with the opening of RK1 “Okayama Station” in June next year.

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The first phase of the Kaohsiung MRT Gangshan Road Bamboo Extension Line will be completed and is scheduled to be completed and opened to traffic in June next year. Before the new line is opened to traffic, the road network information will be fully updated. The Kaohsiung City Government has formed an inter-bureau renaming team to collect opinions from the public, experts and scholars. It is currently expected to update the names of 5 MRT stations.

Including, R19 Nanzi Processing Zone Station was renamed as “Nanzi Science and Technology Park” station, R24 Nan Gangshan Station was renamed as “Okayama Medical” Station; O9 Martial Arts Hall Station was renamed as “Lingya Sports Park”, and O4 City Council Station (former site) The station was renamed “Qianjin” station, and the O1 Xiziwan station was renamed “Hamaxing” station.

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Gao Jie said that since changing the station name requires changing stickers, graphics, sound systems, etc., it will cost a lot of money. Considering that RK1 Okayama Station will be opened to traffic, if the station name is changed now, it will have to be changed again by then. In order to avoid What a waste of public money, the name change will not be completed until June next year.

The renaming of the Kaohsiung MRT has previously caused a stir on the Internet. Many netizens are happy to see the station name change. “It is appropriate to change the name of the station to Hama Star. It is also great that the old council takes advantage of this name change to change it.”, “The most important thing to change is “The City Council (former site)” is finally going to be changed.” “It is much more reasonable to change Xiziwan to Harma Star. As soon as the test rides were opened, when I left the station, I found that it was still about half an hour’s journey to Xiziwan. “I was really dumbfounded.” “The old city council needs to be changed. Once I told my classmates about the Orange Line City Council. I said it was the one on Zhonghua Road, but he said it was the one in Fengshan. I almost made an appointment at the wrong place.”

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