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Pollution is encompassing the issues on environmental hazards which in turn wraps up issues of too many vehicles in China. Other matters refer to bad mannered drivers and poorly taught drivers who could NOT even park cars ( i.e. instead of normal parking takes one or two alignment to fix a park, many just tried desperately to park 3, 4 , 5 , 6 ... times in order to get a fix. This is causing unrealized cause of pollution problem; imagining China has more than 13.5 billion heads and as many as 800 millions vehicles ). It appears that driving schools are able to gang with Vehicle Licensing Authorities to buy driving licenses for their clients ( i.e. no need to undergo driving tests in practice and / or written exams). Hence, YOU get bad drivers! Fortunately, China has expanded its massive networks of Buses, MRT and Hi_Speed trains; yet more are needed. Hopefully, the Hon Premier Li will see lights in this matter to combat this too-many-vehicle issue by increasing prices and foreign car taxes (tariffs) to encourage its people to use / own one car per family while public transports are cheap, clean and fast. If taken into context, car parking spaces will be reduced accordingly.
Dianne Tan
Here are the main problems of traffic congestion in Beijing:- 1. Drivers who do not obey the traffic rules as the fines of 100 yuan is not significant to caused the driveres to think twice before breaking the traffic rules. This is very common on the airport expressway where more than 50% of the cars will drive on the emergency lane. Most people know where the traffic cameras are located so they will cut into the lane before hitting the traffic cameras. So no fines are ever written. If the government raised the fine to 5,000 yuan, immediately all the drivers will be playing by the rule. Strict implementation will caused everyone to be rule abinding. 2. There are too many electric motocycles and bicycles that are not stopping at traffic lights and it is very dangerous for everyone. With the increase in the e-commerce business, delivery companies are using electric bikes to send all their couriers around town, but these vehicles are not obeying the traffic rules. The goverment should curb these offenders and imposed heavy fines to these bicycles so that traffic will be smooth and accident will occur less. 3. The traffic lights in Beijing should include a turn light. All cars should stop at red light so that pedestrains can cross the road without being horns by the cars that are allowed to turn. Pedestrians crossing should be implemented to ensure people and children walking across the road are safe. Again I would like to stress that Beijing is a big cosmopolitan city and with such big population in Beijing, traffic rules safety and obidence should be observe. Fines should be tougher and higher so that drivers understand that if you drive, you are reliable to the safety of each and every person on the road and not be a selfish individual driving without obeying the rule. Thank you and I hope that this city will be even better as it grows!
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Please have a very strict law that will not allow drivers to use cell phones while driving- i have seen so very many bad/deadly accidents because of people paying attention to their phones instead of actual traffic. I ride a scooter while I am there,and it is petrifying to deal with these drivers- Also- please put stop signs into use in your country. I see so many drivers every day just pull out into traffic. they do not ever look-they do not even pause before entering traffic-I was almost killed by one such driver-who incidentally was on his phone,and never got out of his car to help me. If China did a very hard crack down on drivers who use their cell phones while driving-you would teach the whole country this is not ok. If the police actually wrote traffic tickets for this offense,your country would make so much money-
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I think the rules for driving need to be more strict. I have never seen any cars or trucks move out of the way for an ambulance- this is a very important rule for every other country I have ever been to- of course it is very important to the person inside the ambulance,trying to get care...
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