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The Sound of 942 Motorcycles Starting at Once
Nearly half this crowd commutes by motorcycle. It's the reason Taiwan's rush hour has a sound you can recognize anywhere — that rising roar of scooters navigating intersections designed, subtly, around them. No other wealthy society moves like this.
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Taiwan has one of the world's highest motorcycle densities. In this crowd, the cluster on scooters is not a quirk — it is how the island runs. Scooters fill the gap between transit and car.
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