Nanjing Ningan Roads

The urban bus transfer station at the intersection of Nanjing East Road and Ning'an Street.

There are many commercial buildings. It is very cosmopolitan.

Clean, except that the bus will be faced by exhaust gas when passing by

This is a bus stop, not far away from my home, at a walking distance of 5 minutes on foot, if it is a rainy day, it will be tough, though, I use this stop a lot, as a staging post to various areas in Taipei, in New Taipei, or even in Keelung. I use EasyCard (悠游卡) to pay the fares. Bus fares are cheaper than the Taipei Metro's.nnEasyCard had been introduced in 2002 as a contactless payment tool, for paying fares with Taipei Metro, bus system, public transportation facilities like Taiwan Rail Administration (Taiwan Railway) and Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail (Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail), YouBike (share bike service), then expanded to convenience stores and supermarkets. Libraries in Taipei, as far as I know, have the cards as a pass to be allowed to borrow books (and as ID's during the Covid-19 pandemic period to visit the libraries), schools use them as the ID's for students, and city governments use this card to offer transportation subsidy to senior citizens (NTD480 per month, to renew every 6 months)nnInitially people had to make deposits to the cards, then banks introduced co-branded cards, either through debit or credit card mechanism to make payments, so frequent users did not have to worry about if the stored amount was enough. The circulation of this EasyCard was about 63 million in 2018, people have multiple cards for a lot of reasons.nnVisitors to Taiwan are advised to buy blank cards at the convenience stores (NTD100 a piece), then put deposits at convenience stores (preferably), or at Metro stations, in any amount deemed appropriate. If you cannot use up the deposit, kindly treat it as a donation to the card issuer (Ha Ha), while you may keep the card as a souvenir.nnAs far as the bus is concerned, it is considered a major station, and many routes pass here. Usually, I occasionally take the bus here to the fourth section of Xinyi Road.nnI just calculated it a bit. There are at least 8 banks on Nanjing East Road on both sides of this station, which is really lively.nnStarting from this station for two consecutive days to Linsen South Road, I took bus No. 306. I had a relationship with bus No. 306. A while ago I went to Nangang area to take pictures and check in. I also took this bus. Since we boarded the bus before 7 o'clock in the morning, there were very few passengers on the bus, and most of them were students. An old man, when he got off the car, he swiped his card twice without success. He didn't care, or he didn't notice, he got off the car and the driver didn't care.nnAt around 7 in the morning, many students from Yuda got off the bus at this station and queued to the school.nnA 307 bus stopped at the station, followed by five or six cars, unable to move. It turned out that someone in a wheelchair wanted to get on the bus. The driver of the car behind helped people get on the bus, and then the driver of this car helped fix it. It took an extra minute or two to leave.