Also, to try to reduce the outflow of population from Pali and to get the stagnant local economy moving, the government decided to link this formerly isolated village to the outside world. What had been Chungshan Road was turned into Provincial Highway # 15, and the opening of the Kuantu Bridge to traffic linked Pali directly to the busy Taipei districts of Shilin and Peitou.
隨著當時的房地產熱潮，一落一落的○○新村進駐八里；而為了解決八里人口外移、發展停滯不前的境況，政府幫半封閉的八里，一下子拓展了往外面世界的道路，原來的中山路拓為今台十五線省道，關渡大橋的通車則打通了八里與士林、北投的交流。