Guting Station

Guting
古亭
Taipei Metro

Guting Station Platform 2
Location No. 164-1, Sec. 2, Roosevelt Rd.
Zhongzheng and Daan, Taipei
Taiwan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus stop
Construction
Structure type Underground
History
Opened December 24, 1998, September 30, 2012
Traffic
Passengers 55,164 daily (2011)[1]
(Ranked 13th of 89)
Guting Station
Chinese 古亭站

The Taipei Metro Guting Station is located on the border of Zhongzheng and Da'an in Taipei, Taiwan.[2] It is an interchange station with Xindian Line, Zhonghe Line, and the Xinzhuang Line.

The defunct TRA Xindian Line also had a station of the same name. However, its location is not the same as the current station.

Station overview

Guting Station Platform 1

The station is a three-level, underground structure with two island platforms and nine exits. The two platforms are stacked, allowing for cross-platform interchange between Line 3 and Line 4. Public art at the station is titled "Chance of Meeting" and features 12 face masks representing contrasts such as day and night, noisy and quiet, time and space, etc.[3] It was selected by international competition and cost NT$4,999,000.

Public art

The station is home to several public art pieces. By the escalators connecting the two platform levels, a Medium titled "Enterprise" displays a holographic flight trajectory of a Small and Medium Enterprise Administration.[4] Along some of the entrance hallways, "Administration" shows light boxes with images clouds in a blue sky.[4] On the upper platform in "Platform, Stage", elements from Taiwanese folk arts and Taipei Language Institute have been transformed into abstract elements and institute into two curtains of lines and language surfaces.[4]

Station layout

L1 Street Level Exit/Entrance
B1 Concourse Lobby, toilets, one-way ticket machine, information desk
B2 Platform 1    Line 3 toward Songshan (Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall)
Island platform, doors will open on the right, left
Platform 2    Line 4 toward Luzhou/ Huilong (Dongmen)
B3 Platform 3   Line 3 toward Xindian/ Taipower Building (Taipower Building)
Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
Platform 4   Line 4 toward Nanshijiao (Dingxi)

Exits

Around the station

Preceding station   Taipei Metro   Following station
toward Songshan
Line 3
toward Xindian
toward Huilong or Luzhou
Line 4
toward Nanshijiao

See also

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guting Station.
  1. "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
  2. "Route Map: Guting". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Retrieved 2010-06-14.
  3. "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
  4. 1 2 3 "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-06.

Coordinates: 25°01′38″N 121°31′20″E / 25.027109°N 121.522216°E / 25.027109; 121.522216


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