The second day operations of the Maokong cable car system stopped for about 80 minutes on Thursday afternoon due to a thunderstorm, prompting the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, which manages the cable car system, to dispatch additional buses to transport passengers down the mountain.

After an 80-minute wait, a passenger complained, "Does the cable car have to stop every time lightening strikes? We wont be able to rush to our next destination in time!"

The TRTC responded that even though lightening rods have been installed in the system, the system operators still have to stop the cable cars during a thunderstorm to be in line with the regulations and practices of other countries. In the morning, the system operations were stopped for one minute because of the detection of a false alarm.

The first-day operations of the Maokong cable car system on Wednesday was plagued with such problems as system crashes, stuck car doors and cabins bumping into each other. The first car that former Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou （馬英九） and incumbent Mayor Hau Lung-bin （郝龍斌） sat in during the inauguration ceremony, as well as many other cars that followed, were stopped in mid-air for nine minutes. The interruption was caused by a system shutdown due to what the operators said was swinging of the cabin cars by passengers.

In light of the first days problems, local environmental groups raised a red flag over the safety of the cable car system, calling it a policy flub and urging people not to take the cable cars. They also raised the issues of high temperatures inside the cars and the low-frequency noise generated by the cable car system bothering residents living nearby.

Yen Mei-chuan, chairwoman of Homemakers Union and Foundation, said that the problems that have happened to the Maokong cable car system showed that the lift is not able to fulfill the basic requirements of "system security and stability." She questioned the correctness of what she claimed was the citys "decision to rush the systems inauguration". She also raised the concern about the heat inside the cars, saying that test riders had compared the cable cars to ovens.

Green Party Taiwan Secretary-General Pan Han-shen said that the Maokong cable car system revealed a lack of thorough consideration in the city governments policy planning. He said it was a big mistake for the government to copy the cable car systems used in mountainous areas of temperate climates to be implemented in the tropical areas here without any modifications.

A resident of the area near the cable car system, Lin Hui-chen, said that Taipei City government has not been able to resolve the noise problem that has been irritating residents.