According to statistics, there are 165,000 cars and trucks and 536,000 motorcycles in Taipei. If they were all driven on the streets at once, every driver would have four square meters of space around him--but of course this is never the case during rush hour, with its daily routine of cars and motorcycles zigzagging, racing, running red lights, and worse.
根據前年資料統計，如果台北市全部汽、機車一起出動，馬路上會有十六萬五千輛汽車、五十三萬六千輛機車；如果大家都乖乖以等速前進，每個人和每輛車還有四平方公尺可以容身；可是上下班一趕時間，蛇行、搶黃燈就成了常玩的把戲，人車爭道、大塞車更是家常便飯。