The traffic volume of Kaohsiung Light Rail hit a new high during the Spring Festival holiday.

(Provided by Gaojie)

[Reporter Xu Lijuan/Kaohsiung Report] Only today is the 10-day holiday for the Spring Festival. Kaohsiung MRT and Kaohsiung Light Rail have opened a new year. According to the statistics of Gaojie Company, the average daily traffic volume of light rail is 51,000, a record high in the history of Spring Festival traffic. The average daily transportation volume is 197,000, which is close to the level of the Spring Festival before the epidemic.

Gao Jie pointed out that according to statistics on the traffic volume from New Year’s Eve to the fifth day of the new year, the average daily traffic volume of the light rail is 51,000, and the cumulative traffic volume has reached 306,000 passengers, which is 2.26 times higher than the 136,000 passengers during the 6-day Spring Festival holiday in the same period last year; the average daily traffic volume of the MRT is 197,000 , the cumulative volume reached 1.182 million, an increase of 2.07 times compared with the 570,000 passengers during the 6-day Spring Festival holiday in the same period last year, which is a new high in the same period in the past three years, which is close to the level of Spring Festival traffic volume before the epidemic. Both the transportation and the light rail are also maintained at a high level with a daily transportation volume of nearly 200,000 and more than 50,000.

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Gao Jie said that the weather in Kaohsiung during the Spring Festival this year is good. Along with the large-scale activities of the city government last year, it successfully created Kaohsiung’s sightseeing highlights and attracted tourists returning home and sightseeing during the Spring Festival. The top 5 MRT stations during the Spring Festival this year are respectively For R16 Zuoying Station, R14 Arena Station, R11 Kaohsiung Station, R8 Sanduo Shopping District Station, O5/R10 Boulevard Station, the daily traffic volume of a single station can exceed 12,000 passengers, and Zuoying Station can reach 2.5 More than 10,000 passengers are transported, and the O1 Xiziwan Station, R4A Caoya Station, R9 Central Park Station, and R13 Aozidi Station all follow behind with a daily breakthrough of 10,000 passengers; the light rail part is C12 Pier 2 Dayi Station , C5 Dream Times Station, and C14 Hamaxing Station are crowded with people, among which the third and fourth day of junior high school are the highest traffic volume, including transfer stations, department stores, Pier-2 Art Zone and Xiziwan, all of which are the most popular site.

Gaojie estimates that there are still 2 weeks of winter vacation after the end of the annual holiday. This year, the Kaohsiung Lantern Festival has been held in Lianchitan. In addition, there will be continuous holidays at the end of February. It is estimated that the overall light rail and MRT traffic in February will also deliver a good report card.

The Kaohsiung MRT and light rail are almost fully loaded during the Chinese New Year holidays.

(Provided by Gaojie)

The Kaohsiung MRT and light rail are almost fully loaded during the Chinese New Year holidays.

(Provided by Gaojie)