MRT Priority Seat Controversy Reflects Generational Tensions

THE ISSUE OF priority seats, specified by law as for “disabled, elderly, women and children,” is again in the news after two violent incidents on the Taipei MRT. Laws currently specify that priority seats be no less than 15% of all available seating on public transportation. In the first incident, a 25-year-old woman refused to yield her seat to an 80-year-old woman who confronted her for the…

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