"Taipei people have become habitual followers of fashion. They are willing to buy flashy cars and build a monumentally expensive MRTS system, but it won't be so easy to bring the bicycle, which is so popular in Europe and Japan, back to the streets of Taipei," Ho Cheng-tan, director of Taipei City Bureau of Transportation and a cyclist himself, says regretfully.
「台北人趕時髦成性，多麼拉風的汽車都買，多麼昂貴的地下鐵都捨得建，但要把歐日頂時興的腳踏車街景在台北再現，卻沒那麼容易」，本身也是單車族的台北市交通局長賀陳旦惋惜地說。