Jiangzicui Station

Jiangzicui
江子翠
Taipei Metro

Jiangzicui Station platform
Location B1F, No. 296, Sec. 2, Wenhua Rd.
Banqiao, New Taipei
Taiwan
Operated by
Line(s)
Connections Bus stop
Construction
Structure type Underground
History
Opened August 31, 2000
Traffic
Passengers 43,750 daily (2011)[1]
(Ranked 24th of 89)
Jiangzicui Station
Chinese 江子翠站

The Taipei Metro Jiangzicui Station is a station on the Banqiao Line located in Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Station overview

Jiangzicui Station Exit 3.

This two-level, underground station has an island platform and six exits.[2] It is located at the intersection of Wenhua Road and Shuangshi Road.

The station is not the in same location as the Japanese era station (Gangzui Station), which was located at the intersection of Xianmin Boulevard and Sanmin Road and has since been demolished.

Originally, this station was supposed to be called Shuangshi Station (雙十站), but this was later changed to its current name in reference to a tributary of the Dahan River which the Banqiao Line passes under.

Station layout

L1 Street Level Exit/Entrance
B1 Concourse Lobby, automatic ticket dispensing machine, information desk, one-way faregates
Restrooms (South side, outside fare zone near Exits 2 and 3)
B2 Platform 1   Line 5 toward Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (Longshan Temple)
Island platform, Doors will open on the left
Platform 2   Line 5 toward Dingpu/ Far Eastern Hospital (Xinpu)

Exits

Incidents

On 21 May 2014, at least 25 people were stabbed in mass stabbing spree by a knife-wielding college student on the Taipei Metro Blue Line.[3] The attack occurred on a train near Jiangzicui Station, resulting in 4 deaths and 24 injured.[4] It was the first fatal attack on the metro system since it began operations in 1996. The suspect is 21-year-old university student Cheng Chieh (鄭捷).

Around the station

Preceding station   Taipei Metro   Following station
toward Dingpu
Line 5

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jiangzicui 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: Jiangzicui". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Retrieved 2010-06-21.
  3. "Four killed, 21 wounded in Taipei subway knife attack". Taipei News.Net. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  4. Huang, Sunrise; Wang, Hung-kuo; Holzer, Wesley (21 May 2014). "3 critically injured in stabbing on Taipei metro (update)". Central News Agency (Republic of China). Retrieved 21 May 2014.

Coordinates: 25°05′28″N 121°33′35″E / 25.091075°N 121.559834°E / 25.091075; 121.559834


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