Remember when Taichung was gonna have a Guggenheim musuem?
Remember when Yanmingshan was gonna have an MRT line?
Can you name some other ideas which never came to fruition in Taiwan? Try not to focus on your own broken dreams. 
The Beitou Gondola? I think it was cancelled after the problems with the first one in Maokong.
Asia Pacific Hub.
A lesson to China in how to democratize.
Financial centre.
Green Silicon Island.
Formal independence.
Gondola to Yushan.
Six-Year National Development Plan
Asia-Pacific Regional Operations Center
Penghu casino land
Gay marriage in Taiwan (hopefully will be resurrected)
End of compulsory military service (maybe still coming?)
Abolition of high school entrance exams
Dual citizenship for waiguoren
And of course: Retake the Mainland; Unify China!!
Born in Taiwan, mother is Taiwanese, can’t get dual citizenship. 
If born before 1980, the Taiwan government will only use the nationality of your father and not your mother. So I have to wait another year and apply for my APRC…
via Wikipedia: “In the original version of the law nationality could only be passed from father to child. However, the law was revised in 2000 to allow citizenship to be passed on from either parent, taking effect on those born after February 9, 1980 (those under age 20 at the time of the promulgation).” :loco:
Born in Taiwan, mother is Taiwanese, can’t get dual citizenship.
If born before 1980, the Taiwan government will only use the nationality of your father and not your mother. So I have to wait another year and apply for my APRC…
via Wikipedia: “In the original version of the law nationality could only be passed from father to child. However, the law was revised in 2000 to allow citizenship to be passed on from either parent, taking effect on those born after February 9, 1980 (those under age 20 at the time of the promulgation).” :loco:
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the original law seems like an obvious attempt to discourage Taiwanese women from marrying non Taiwanese.
Good point. Didn’t even look at it from that perspective. I was too caught up in not wanting to use my US passport when travelling to countries like Saudi, Tunisia, Turkey, etc. for work. Of course, there was not problem, but a little peace of mind would have been nice.
Also, being able to get a car loan or credit card and having an open work permit would be nice perks…
Sorry for the tangent, Superking. We now bring you back to the original topic of smashing dreams. 
When I first arrived I was told that Taiwan was suppose to get Asia’s first Disneyland but they found some way to screw it up. Maybe an urban myth, not sure.
Plastic bag ban
When Taipei was going to refer to it’s main roads as numbered boulevards under Mayor Ma’s watch to make it more “foreigner-friendly”… which led to taxi drivers having no idea what you were talking about when you mentioned Sec 4, 1st Boulevard…
Which is also what I read in today’s Taipei Times the MRT wants to do as well… the WenHu line will now be Line 1, etc… to make it easier for foreigners… if only they consulted those who will actually be using the system instead of thinking of what will be best for us.
[quote=“WaltzingMatilda”]When Taipei was going to refer to it’s main roads as numbered boulevards under Mayor Ma’s watch to make it more “foreigner-friendly”… which led to taxi drivers having no idea what you were talking about when you mentioned Sec 4, 1st Boulevard…
Which is also what I read in today’s Taipei Times the MRT wants to do as well… the WenHu line will now be Line 1, etc… to make it easier for foreigners… if only they consulted those who will actually be using the system instead of thinking of what will be best for us.[/quote]
As with language issues, they know better than us.
- Taipei’s Wall Street
- Taipei’s Roppongi
(both used as pretexts to evict residents in Taipei’s Huaguang Community)
- removal of Taipower’s nuclear waste from Orchid Island
(still waiting for this one)
Guy
Round the island cycle paths. They have not just been promising this one but telling us they are ready, repeatedly, for years.
Sewage treatment.
would promising better food safety qualify or is that too recent?
Nope. That goes back a long time too. Just look up heavy metals, dioxins, plasticizers, and melamine.
One foreign English teacher in each public elementary school in Taipei.
Two virgins for every newly arriving Canadian kindy teacher…
Taiwan twin stars optoelectronics and biotech industry. Opto is mostly in debt while biotech has been a quiet success but not a major industry.
Taiwan being a regional services centre was one that completely failed, the current meme is to be a logistic centre at Taoyuan airport and all ports to become free trade zones, property speculation in reality.
The adoption of a single, unified Romanization system. This will only happen in the event that Taiwan itself gets “unified.”