World Games metro station

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World Games/
National Sports Complex

R17 世運 / 國家體育園區
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World Games station
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 世運車站
Simplified Chinese 世运车站
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Shìyùn Chēzhàn
Bopomofo ㄕˋ ㄩㄣˋ ㄔㄜ ㄓㄢˋ
Wade–Giles Shih4-yun4 Ch'ê1-chan4
General information
Location Nanzih, Kaohsiung
Taiwan
Coordinates 22°42′5.5″N120°18′9.2″E / 22.701528°N 120.302556°E / 22.701528; 120.302556
Operated by
Line(s)
PlatformsTwo side platforms
Construction
Structure typeElevated
History
Opened2008-03-09
Passengers
2,464 daily (Jan. 2011) [1]
Services
Preceding station Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Logo(Logo Only).svg Kaohsiung Metro Following station
Oil Refinery Elementary School
towards Gangshan
Red line Zuoying
towards Siaogang

World Games is a station on the Red line of Kaohsiung Metro in Nanzih District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The station is named after the 2009 World Games. [2]

Contents

Station overview

World Games station exit. KRTC World Games Station (Exits).jpg
World Games station exit.

The station is a four-level, elevated station with two side platforms and four exits. [3] It is 134 meters long and is located at the intersection of Zuonan Rd. and Jhonghai Rd. [4]

It was originally planned to be named "Banping Mountain Station", [5] but was changed in July 2005 to its current name. [2] Because it is the first elevated station after the line emerges from underground, the aim was to create an iconic station similar to the Taipei Metro's Jiantan metro station.

Public art

Public art in the station was designed by Ron Wood and Christian Karl Janssen. [6] Titled "Floating Forest", the artwork covers an area of 1,000 m2 (11,000 sq ft) and is displayed on the glass canopy overlooking the tracks, at the concourse level, and along the stairways. [7] The artwork depicts many plants and insects, and tells the story of "Soul of the Land and the People in Southern Taiwan". [7]

Around the station

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References

  1. ↑ "統計資訊 > 統計月報". Transportation Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
  2. 1 2 捷運新站名公佈了 (in Chinese). 高雄捷運股份有限公司. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  3. ↑ "世運站". 高雄捷運公司. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  4. ↑ "世運車站週邊地圖". 高雄市政府捷運工程局. Retrieved 2010-07-09.
  5. ↑ "w3.krtco.com.tw/news/newspaper_(9307)-2.htm" (in Chinese). 高雄捷運股份有限公司. 2004-07-23. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  6. ↑ "R17世運站-海上雄師" (in Chinese). 高雄捷運股份有限公司. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
  7. 1 2 "R17 World Games Stadium". KRTCO. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
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