There are virtually no experts who bear any hope that the early network will absorb many of the working crowd when it is finished in 1998. In particular at the beginning, since the early network is only a system of poorly connected single lines, many people hold that the system is "going to lose a lot of money."
對將在八十七年完成的捷運初期網路，已沒有學者認為它能有效吸收以私人交通工具上下班的人口，尤其初期網路只是個線狀系統，許多人更算好了初期它將是「賠錢貨」。