Now that work is underway on the Mucha, Hsintien, Nankang and Tamshui branches of the system, some 46,000 of us and our relatives have to pick up our belongings and move on, including around 40,000 bushes, and 6,000 full-sized trees out of a city-wide total of only about 10,000.
若扣除尚未發包的中和、板橋和部分的淡水捷運路段，目前已破土的木柵、新店、南港和淡水四條捷運線，我們家族總共有四萬六千多個成員得收拾包袱走路。其中，杜鵑等灌木小兄弟約有四萬棵；樟樹等喬木老大哥有六千多株，數量可觀，整個台北市的喬木也不過十萬棵左右。