Ubiquitous Motorcycles

Motorcycles are everywhere in Taiwan. Here is the typical student parking at Cheng Da. But we are not a commuter college, most students who live in the dorms probably have a motorcycle(or at least a bicycle). Or maybe they live in off-campus housing and rather than walk(like me), they ride.




















Parking the motorcycle/scooter is always a problem, and the pedestrian is the one who has to look out.

But every kind of service is done with the motorcycle, the mail is delivered by motorcycle.

The littter is picked up by motorscooters(the yellow flag tells everyone that this is a slow moving scooter that makes frequent stops):

And the parking meter enforcement is on motorscooter. There aren't any parking meters, the metermaids(not always women) just go around giving out tickets every hour or so and if you're on their route you get a ticket. You need to pay the tickets eventually. Probabilistically when you're parking of the street a lot you get a lot of tickets. No more meters, just the law of large numbers.

I'm kind of excited to go to Thailand where there are even more motorcycles than in Taiwan!