According to Casper Shih, president of the China Productivity Center, it is estimated that in 1990 more than NT $ 50 billion in work time and energy resources was lost in Taipei City alone for that year. That's twice the cost of the entire first north-south highway.
根據中國生產力中心總經理石滋宜在民國七十九年的估算，該年人們因為塞車損失的工時、能源，僅台北市就超過新台幣五百億，是第一條高速公路的價錢。