Just as I land in Taipei, a friend from college arrives in Kaohsiung. On the first weekend out of Quarantine, I travel to meet her. Taipei Main Station is a maze of concrete tunnels and metal tracks, underground platforms, and a multistory depot with gates for arrivals and departures, housing the MRT, the bus stop, the local railway station, as well as the High-Speed Rail. Used to the meanderingly long journeys of the Indian Railways, prone to such delays where arrival become