Originally Posted by
krispykrme
what hell are you talking about?[left]
GH walk to 101 station is literally like couple hundred meters tops. You literally step out of the side door and walk to the end of block. You are at 101 station.
The walk to red line from airport MRT station at TPE is literally 2 escalator from getting off the train to get to basement of TrainStation (where you wait for high speed rail and train). Then probably 5 min you can connect.
The problem with taxi or car hire is traffic. You will get stuck just getting off high rise section into the city. As well as getting off the exit to Hyatt from Neihu.
Airport express and taxi from main station is probably the fastest combination.
No need to be uncivil and rude.
When comparing public transport to a direct door-to-door car service, every additional walk/wait/inconvenience of the former needs to be accounted for when comparing to the traffic risk of the latter. It may only be a 250m walk from GH Taipei to the nearest MRT red line entrance, but that's 250m that still has to walked - plus then actually getting to the MRT platform, which may be compounded by the nearest entrance (5) not having a down escalator, so then is taking the elevator necessary? etc. etc. Then add in potential wait for the train.
Even if that all only takes 5 minutes, that's still 5 minutes of potential traffic that is already negated by the short distance on the GH Taipei side.
Traffic in Taipei can be bad (especially east-west across the city during rush hour), but the reality is that traffic will rarely be bad enough to make up for all the walk/waiting time of the MRT, especially considering the subway ride itself from 101 station to Taipei Main Station already takes 14 minutes (a few minutes longer than a car will take door-to-door without traffic).