【精英翻譯】的部落格

Southern Taiwan mayors gather to launch new iPass card era (2014/02/13)

It’s become second nature in Taiwan to use an EasyCard to pay for all forms of public transportation around the country. But a new venture backed by southern Taiwan’s counties and cities aims to end the EasyCard’s dominance. The iPass Corporation was opened for business Thursday boasting a stored value card with a much wider range of functions. 

Political affiliation didn’t matter Thursday when the heads of Taiwan’s five southern counties and cities gathered for the opening of the iPass Corporation. The Chiayi City mayor was the only KMT, or “blue,” politician there and felt like she belonged. 

Huang Min-huei 
Chiayi City Mayor (KMT)
People asked me why I invested in the venture being the one blue in a sea of green. I answered that of course we wanted to invest because it was the right thing to do and a move in the right direction. We definitely should cooperate.

The iPass Card had previously been limited to Kaohsiung’s public transportation system. But it can now be used for all the same bus, train and boat systems as the EasyCard except for the high-speed rail, for which service begins in October. Card holders will even be able to use it at convenience stores in the future. 

Wang Kuo-tsai
iPass Corporation Chairman
The iPass has about an 80 percent market share in Kaohsiung, while the EasyCard is stronger everywhere else. We hope to balance things out across the country so that there isn’t just one type of EasyCard in Taiwan.

Long overshadowed by the Easy Card, the iPass Card now seems poised to build its own brand. 

南台一卡通 

由南部五縣市，和四家民營公司合作投資的一卡通票證公司，將一卡通的功能全面升級，今天舉辦了揭牌儀式，最受矚目的就是南部五縣市中，唯一藍營的嘉義市長黃敏惠也出席了，她表示為了提暢一卡通的使用，她不分藍綠，這樣才會讓一卡通多元發展

南部五縣市重要首長一字排開，不分藍綠出席，為一卡通票證公司的成立來揭牌，就是要全力支持一卡通。雖然嘉義市長是裡面唯一的藍營首長，不過為了一卡通發展，大家一齊合作是必要的。

[[嘉義市長 黃敏惠]]
“有人在問我說，你是萬綠叢中一點藍，你為什麼要投資呢，我說這當然要投資，這是對的事，走對的路，我們一定要合作、整合”

過去的一卡通，單純的只是高雄捷運所發的卡片，但為了走向多元，一卡通決定仿悠遊卡。一卡通今天啟用後，預計在今年十月可望用來搭乘高鐵外，其餘的交通工具，都和悠遊卡都有同樣功能，甚至便利商店也陸續開始通用。

[[一卡通票證董事長 王國材]]
“一卡通在高雄大概有八成的佔有率，那其他的地方以悠遊卡為主，我們希望說全國的趨勢可以平衡點 不要大概只有一種悠遊卡在全國”

一卡通的全面升級，就是不讓悠遊卡一卡獨秀。

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