{"id":788,"date":"2008-04-11T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=788"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:54:39","slug":"parking-ticket-in-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/11\/parking-ticket-in-taipei\/","title":{"rendered":"Parking ticket in Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2403911577\/\" title=\"Parking ticket in Taipei by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2128\/2403911577_c4971539e9.jpg\" alt=\"Parking ticket in Taipei\" height=\"334\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TAIPEI, TAIWAN<\/strong> \u2014 A few days ago, I wondered how parking tickets were handed to offending motorists in a large Asian metropolis. I had my answer the day after, while walking around in the vicinity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chiang_Kai_Shek_Memorial_Hall\">Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall<\/a> in central Taipei.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2403911583\/\" title=\"Parking ticket in Taipei by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3161\/2403911583_a27a7eed0e.jpg\" alt=\"Parking ticket in Taipei\" height=\"334\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/smurfmatic\/2403911573\/\" title=\"Parking ticket in Taipei by Cedric Sam, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2323\/2403911573_c8840ec854.jpg\" alt=\"Parking ticket in Taipei\" height=\"334\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a middle-aged lady on a bicycle! Despite the ragged look of our supposed parking agent, she carried an electronic device like our local agents, and issued tickets that were very real.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a standard practice there, but a regular bike is the perfect vehicle for such work in a crowded city like Taipei, which narrow streets would not suit very well cars that make frequent stops. A scooter probably would not have been an economical (or ecological) choice to cover small areas, especially to fine consecutively parked vehicles. If you look more closely into the agent&#8217;s basket, there was an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EasyCard\">EasyCard<\/a>, Taipei&#8217;s transit chip card. Now, the surgical mask: for health or privacy purposes?<\/p>\n<p><em>This <a href=\"http:\/\/commeleschinois.ca\/2008\/04\/11\/parking-ticket-in-taipei\/\">article<\/a> was crossposted to <a href=\"http:\/\/commeleschinois.ca\/\">Comme les Chinois<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAIPEI, TAIWAN \u2014 A few days ago, I wondered how parking tickets were handed to offending motorists in a large Asian metropolis. I had my answer the day after, while walking around in the vicinity of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in central Taipei. It was a middle-aged lady on a bicycle! Despite the ragged<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/11\/parking-ticket-in-taipei\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Parking ticket in Taipei&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7828,31],"tags":[2192,6,2191,18,72,1432,941],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-traffic","tag-chiang-kai-shek-memorial-hall","tag-cycling","tag-electronic-device","tag-other-cities","tag-parking","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Parking ticket in Taipei - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/04\/11\/parking-ticket-in-taipei\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parking ticket in Taipei - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TAIPEI, TAIWAN \u2014 A few days ago, I wondered how parking tickets were handed to offending motorists in a large Asian metropolis. 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