Taking as a precedent his approach to the Mass Rapid Transit System when he was mayor of Taipei, Chen says that during the mayoral elections he opposed the embryonic mass transit system, but he did not tear it down just to fulfill a campaign promise. Instead, he organized a group of experts from Taiwan and overseas to investigate the system, and, he says, resolved the problems by improving the MRTS.
他以他台北市長任內處理捷運的做法為例表示，他在選舉時政見是反捷運的，如果為了實現選舉承諾，他應該把捷運拆掉，但他選擇組成國內外的專家團為捷運進行體檢，最後以補強改善的方式解決。