Many Taiwanese pass through Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, which serves as both the nation’s facade and a gateway to the rest of the world. However, a netizen has posted an analysis of the airport on PTT — Taiwan’s largest online bulletin board — which lists a large number of problems with the airport’s design.
The netizen, who describes himself as a tour group guide, in a post on PTT on Thursday last week wrote that, in overall comparison with several dozen of the world’s airports, Taoyuan Airport feels “like a joke.” Problems cited by the poster include the airport’s spatial design, last-minute changes of boarding gate number and problems with circulation and flow within the building.
According to the poster, Taoyuan Airport’s H-shaped design “leaves absolutely no room for expansion” so that, for example, the duty-free shopping area is cut into two and forced into opposite wings of the building. The poster says he once went there to buy a tube of lipstick for his wife, but, because the shop in B wing was out of stock, he had to wait for the shop assistant to retrieve stock from the store’s other outlet on the opposite side of the terminal. After about a 15-minute wait, the shop assistant finally reappeared, running and out of breath. This causes both the buyer and the seller to lose out, says the poster.
Photo: Yao Kai-shiou, Liberty Times
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As for circulation and flow, some areas of the terminal are hampered by moving walkways that are too narrow. Furthermore, says the poster, because the design only allowed for moving walkways in one direction, this means that travellers who have already gone to the boarding gate but then want to return to the duty-free area, smoking area or restaurants have a long distance to walk.
The post has attracted considerable discussion online. One netizen pointed out that when Taoyuan Aiport was built 40 years ago it was one of the world’s most advanced buildings and at the time even Singapore’s Changi Airport sent people over to study the design.
(Liberty Times, translated by Edward Jones)
作為我國門面及對外窗口,許多國人都是透過台灣桃園國際機場 走遍全世界,但有網友在台灣最大的網路布告欄批踢踢發文分析,其實桃園機場的設計有不少問題。
有自稱是領隊的網友上週四在批踢踢發文指出,與世界上數十個機場綜合評比,桃園機場讓他覺得是「一場笑話」,包含空間設計、臨時變動登機門、機場動線等,其實都存在一些問題。
據其指出,桃機的H型設計「完全壓縮到任何擴建的空間」,像免稅區硬生生的被分割為兩邊,他曾經為了幫老婆買一隻口紅,卻因為B側的免稅店沒貨,而必須等店員向另一側的同間店家調貨,結果等了約十五分鐘「才看到店員氣喘吁吁的跑過來」,這對買方或賣方而言都是一種損失。
在「機場動線」方面,部分航廈有電動步道太窄的問題,加上單一方向的設計,如果有旅客走到登機門又想回去免稅區或用餐區、吸菸區等,又要走很長的一段路 。
該篇文章發表後引來不少討論。有網友指出,桃園機場四十年前其實是世界很先進的建築,當時可是連樟宜(新加坡的機場)都來學。
(自由時報)
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