“ Generally speaking, when a city reaches a population of 1 million, that ’ s the best time to start work on an urban mass transportation system, but by the time digging began in Tai-pei, the city ’ s population was already 2.6 million, for which we ended up paying a very heavy penalty in terms of traffic congestion caused by construction work. ”
「一般而言，城市發展至百萬人口，是籌建捷運的最佳時機；但台北市開挖捷運時，人口已高達 260 萬人，以致付出了沈重的交通成本。」