Over the last three months, the number of passengers on Taipei's MRT has increased 25 % over the same period last year and the number of people riding motorcycles and scooters has doubled. Meanwhile, June 2008 automobile sales fell to half their level of a year ago.
近 3 個月，台北捷運旅客比以往同期每月增加 10 萬人次，騎摩托車的人數則增加一倍，去年 6 月到今年 6 月，台灣小汽車的銷售量減少一半。