Wu laments that the MRT was "born at the wrong time": work had not long started on the project when Taiwan's political, economic and social environment entered a period of enormous change which not only cast the original timetable into disarray, but also threw up all kinds of new problems which had never even been imagined before.
捷運剛開工起跑不久，就碰到國內政經及社會形勢的連番巨變，不僅打亂原先的進度表，還攪出許多以前想都沒想過的問題。