Pedestrian Hell

Once hailed for its high-speed rail and smart city ambitions, Taiwan has found itself branded a "pedestrian hell," a place where to step onto a crosswalk can be to take one’s life in one’s hands. This episode of Finding Formosa investigates how decades of car-first policies, weak enforcement and fragmented governance created a hostile environment for pedestrians and why Taiwan’s roads remain among the deadliest in the developed world. Through personal stories of loss, voices of protest and a growing civic movement demanding change, we uncover the deep structural failures that have shaped Taiwan’s streets and ask whether the country is finally ready to choose people over traffic.