Formosa Boulevard metro station

Formosa Boulevard R10/O5 美麗島
Formosa Boulevard Station Exit 1
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	美麗島站
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Měilìdaǒ Zhàn Bopomofo ㄇㄟˇ ㄌㄧˋ ㄉㄠˇ ㄓㄢˋ Wade–Giles Mei3-li4-tao3 Chan4 Tongyong Pinyin Měilìtaǒ Jhàn Southern Min Hokkien POJ Bí-lē-tó Chām Tâi-lô Bí-lē-tó Tsām
General information
Location	Sinsing, Kaohsiung Taiwan
Operated by	Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation
Line(s)	Red line (R10)   Orange line (O5)
Platforms	2 side platforms (upper level) 1 island platform (lower level)
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	2008-09-14
Passengers
11,551 daily (Jan. 2011)[1]
Services
Preceding station Kaohsiung Metro Following station Kaohsiung Main Station towards Gangshan Red line Central Park towards Siaogang Cianjin towards Hamasen Orange line Sinyi Elementary School towards Daliao

Formosa Boulevard (Chinese: 美麗島站; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Bí-lē-tó-chām) is a station of Kaohsiung Metro located in Sinsing District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is currently the sole interchange station between metro lines in Kaohsiung.^[2]

Formosa Boulevard station is named after the Formosa Boulevard project, a remodelling of Kaohsiung's Jhongshan Road in preparation for the 2009 World Games.^{[citation needed]} Formosa Boulevard is in turn named after the Formosa Incident. Transferring from the Red line to the Orange line (or vice versa) takes roughly 4 minutes.