I’m from the Gold Coast and our trams have ugly overhead electrical cables whereas the light rail in Kaohsiung uses supercapacitor banks which negates the need for overhead lines.
@Tezastar7 ай бұрын
Oh, same as Sydney's one, but nevertheless it's all from the same company, CAF and Alstom I believe. And they looks pretty similar apart from the overhead cables.
@tomtsai7 ай бұрын
I wish GC had future proofed and gone with the new tech. Makes such a difference IMO, the cables are such an eyesore. 😅
@WesDaviestravel7 ай бұрын
Ah very good to know thanks! Indeed it’s Alstom who makes the trains. I wonder if they can retrofit the Gold Coast trains with the new superconductors?
@Tezastar7 ай бұрын
@@WesDaviestravel Not sure about retrofitting, however there is a solution to catenary-free light rail operation, sydney has a section that is catenary-free by using third rail on the ground to supply power, the segment goes live only when the light rail passing over.
@winstonh21657 ай бұрын
catenary-free looks nice, but the design of the carriage is just mediocre, and considering the cost of the whole thing is not really worthwhile
I'm from Taipei, and I'm delighted to see that Kaohsiung has a circular railway line. The changes in Kaohsiung over the past few years have been quite astonishing, impressing visitors from the northern part of Taiwan. Let's move forward, Kaohsiung!
@WesDaviestravel7 ай бұрын
I’m lucky to have been living in Kaohsiung during the last few years and I can really see it’s becoming a world class city! Very impressed!
Yes, I am proud of my city. At the same time I am one of the engineers of the light rail construction. I am happy to contribute my efforts to my city.
@LalaWu2227 ай бұрын
That’s what I exactly did last week. Hop on the LRT and circled around the Kaohsiung city and got amazed by the scenes that I seldom pay attention to when riding a scooter.
Wow, that’s a lovely ride!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ This city has changed so much in a fantastic way since my last visit! ❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍
@bensonyen15147 ай бұрын
Hope u enjoyed the ride with me. :) 8:26 I was the driver u were filming, lol.
@ColeFogle7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the tour brother. I’ll have to check it out and catch a free ride.
@WesDaviestravel7 ай бұрын
Absolutely man! You guys will love it!
@Lawrence213247 ай бұрын
Unbelievably picturesque Kaohsiung!
@LaurensvanRooijen7 ай бұрын
Good to hear the finished the full circle. I do like Kaohsiung's LRT since I tend to stay in the Pier2 area when in town, and you can hop on the LRT to get to Monkey mountain / Shoushan, Lover's Pier, the Kaohsiung Expo and the Fine Arts Museum. Makes the city way more convenient for tourists.
@JessicaKT7 ай бұрын
我也去搭過幾次,要看風景的話,要早上搭比較適當,很驚艷也很欣慰。
@喬納森-z3i7 ай бұрын
Welcome to Kaoshiung. Thanks for your film to see how beautiful city it is.
@Iverson88117 ай бұрын
You nailed the trending flow here in Taiwan. As long as you say something good about Taiwan, you absolutely earn the heart here. 🎉
@kerryhung1437 ай бұрын
真的
@violin69187 ай бұрын
I am the son-in-law of Kaohsiung. I am glad that you love this beautiful city as much as I do!
I may be going to Taiwan this December from Canada, and I'm curious to ride this LRT. Gaoxiong's looks really good and clean and spacious! I look forward to possibly riding it. Love trains! We had a new LRT built in Ottawa. where I live, before the pandemic, and... it's be fraught with so many problems that despite it being new it doesn't work well (in any weather). and has been shut down multiple times for months and even crashed/ derailed... Also, went way over budget and took/ is taking much longer than it should.
@WesDaviestravel7 ай бұрын
I actually had filmed that story in this video but I edited it out. A story for another day maybe
@jadeice6227 ай бұрын
高雄真正美❤
@athenahank7 ай бұрын
輕軌的另一個優點就是可以看景色,捷運就是看不到街景,捷運只能一直滑手機,我超愛看輕軌風景
@ycheng27 ай бұрын
我的遊台功略多半都是這些“老外”教的😄
@thankyou8887 ай бұрын
真的😂
@林建邑-r9e7 ай бұрын
覺得真的蠻不錯的呀⋯⋯很喜歡看沿路的風景😊⋯⋯主要的點都有站不用找車位了
@user-cl6mw8cq6x7 ай бұрын
感謝 能為環繞高雄市區的輕軌觀光推廣介紹 ❤❤❤ 祝福 平安健康 事事順心
@Max-nu6dx7 ай бұрын
I spent all of August last year in Kaohsiung and I loved riding the LRT! This video makes me miss the city so much, I'm looking forward to go the full loop when I visit again!
Great the subscriber no. recently increases 2k in such short time after stuck for quite a long while. Even Wes is relaxing to take care your YT channel❤
@WesDaviestravel7 ай бұрын
Yes, I’ve been super happy with that! 🫠
@Brush-03287 ай бұрын
@@WesDaviestravel I do follow the YT vlog for most of you guys( Allen /元元/Lukas etc) for years . Prozzie and you were more free on YT compared to others (Lukas is the most aggressive one). Maybe it’s because you two come from the 2nd larger country in the world(you knot what I mean). Prozzie becomes pretty positive in close-in months, so his subscribers obviously jumping up. Perhaps you could pay a Little more effort too. Guess what, your pronunciation is the best clear one to learn EN listening. I saw many same messages during the past period. I like you guys but you are the best one for me ❤️
@Brush-03287 ай бұрын
@@WesDaviestravel I can’t believe the subscribers is jumped 1k to 128k in just few minutes ! 🎉🎉🎉
@actuallyUncleTopher7 ай бұрын
I love the light rail! So convenient!
@WesDaviestravel7 ай бұрын
Yeah man! I wonder how fast it is compared to a YouBike 🤔
"One feature I really like is the doors don't open automatically". I still don't know why there's a need for a button to open the doors. It's not like you're outside a high traffic area where automatic door sensor will be trigger by pedestrians. it is a train, it gets to a stop, the doors have to be opened to let people off.