The most obvious symptoms of economic progress are the high-rise apartments and broad thoroughfares which have replaced the shanties and alleys of former days.
物質建設方面，最顯著的改變就是板橋市容的煥然一新，高樓大廈取代了過去的磚瓦平房，寬廣平坦的公路取代了昔日的狹街窄巷，農田阡陌恐怕只能在回憶中找尋了。