台北巴士 Buses Of Taipei

台北巴士 Buses Of Taipei

台北，港人其中一個熱門旅遊地點，這是因為往返香港及台北的航班頻密，而且航程只是個多小時，十分方便。另外，在台北消費亦十分相宜，加上不同富吸引力的旅遊景點，如故宮博物館，中正紀念堂，台北101，貓空纜車等，故成為其中一個港人出門旅遊熱點。我們口中所說的台北，其實是包括台北巿及新北巿，而淡水就是其中一個位於新北巿的地區。

受惠於四通八達的公共交通網絡，港人到台北旅遊，大多數都是採取自由行方式，利用一張悠遊卡，便能方便穿梭於不同捷運路線及巴士，往返不同景點。說回台北的巴士，縱然台北是一個亞洲大都巿，但不同香港及新加坡，巿內所有的巴士全數是單層。儘管曾經兩架左軑版本的利蘭奧林比安，於一九八九年被安排到台北巿試驗行走，但始終未有取得成功。另外，公共巴士的來源地，或許跟地理位置或者歷史背景有關，底盤是日本或南韓車廠的出品，然後再運抵台灣裝配本地車身，至於香港及新加坡常見的歐洲品牌，在公共巴士巿場中鮮有出現。

二零零一年，台北開始出現有可接載輪椅乘客的Ikarus低地台巴士(台灣稱作低底盤公車)，但在二零零八年前低底盤公車並不普及，隨著不同品牌的低底盤公車陸續投入服務，低底盤公車終在二零零八年之後逐漸普及，而且巴士來源地更呈多元化，除了南韓大宇，國內品牌金龍及宇通，亦出現於台北一眾低底盤公車中。

本章節主要向各位訪客展示網主於二零一一年十一月於台北遊覽拍攝的巴士相片，由於對每款巴士型號及其背景資料所知有限，亦缺乏相關參考資料，故未能進一步按車型作出介紹及相片分類，不便之處，敬請原諒。

Taipei, a Asia's city that only cost about one and half an hours flight from Hong Kong, is one of the most favorite city to travel of Hong Kong people. There are many attractive sightseeing point in Taipei, for example, National Palace Museum, Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei 101 and the Maokong Gondola etc,. To go one step further, it is not too expensive when you visiting Taipei. At present, Taipei is consisted of Taipei City and New Taipei City, Tamsui is one of the town within New Taipei City.

Hong Kong people mainly went to Taipei with package since it has a very convenient public transportation networks. You can travel various bus routes and Taipei Metro with a Easy Card. Though Taipei is one of the Asia's Metropolitan, all buses are single decker which different from Hong Kong and Singapore. In 1989, Taipei City received two Leyland Olympian double decker for evaluation but the result was unsatisfactory and no more double decker were purchased. The bodyworks of Taipei public bus were assembled locally when the chassis was delivered from Japan and Korea, mainly related to geographical and historical factors. The European product commonly seen in Hong Kong and Singapore market is a rare sight in Taipei.

Super low floor bus was not popular within Taipei City before 2008, though first wheelchair accessible bus was entered service in 2001 with a fleet of 30 Ikarus super low floor buses. To upgrade the service standard of public bus, bulk of super low floor buses of different brand were delivered since 2008. At present, super low floor buses in Taipei City mainly were King Long and Yutong from China and Daewoo from Korea.

Below is the photo I taken during my trip in Taipei City in Nov., 2011. As I did not know much about the model and background of each bus as well as related references, photos can only arranged according to their registration number and I apologize for any inconvenience caused.

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