The mayor and the town council wanted a bridge, although a few of the locals, like the teachers at Hsinkang Junior High, were not too keen on the idea. The nation's ecologists, on the other hand, were incensed. "Without a bridge, it's lovely; with a bridge, it's vulgar," one indignant scholar sniffed.
鎮長、鎮民代表雖然對建橋言之成理，但當地少部分民眾，如新港國中的教師並不贊成；國內生態學者對在這全台「最可貴的自然資源」加上一個人造物更是激烈反對。