Macau, Linha da Taipa

Breaking News!

I declare hereby that linha da Taipa (Portuguese for "line of Taipa") in Macau is now in service on the 10th December!
The official route map.

This is the first line in the Light Rapid Transit project to open, run by fully automated rubber-tyred 2 car trains provided by Mitsubishi.

It is evident from this picture that the trains are driverless.

I'm so much obliged to have the honour to mark the line on the list.



*For those who might be wondering why the line and the stations are named in Portuguese, Macau had been a former colony of the Portuguese Empire before it was transferred back to China in 1999. Portuguese remains one of the city's official languages.

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