The situation was very different in younger Taipei, where the economy was based primarily on commerce. The people there were more favorably disposed to all things new. Rail lines were certainly a symbol of modernity, and it was thus in Keelung that ground was broken on Taiwan's first railway construction project.
在以商業凝聚人氣、開發較晚的台北，反而具有接受新事物的眼光，象徵現代化的鐵路因此在基隆破土動工。