Here is the sketch unwrapped last week by Beijing's city fathers to tackle the city's disgusting traffic: 280,000 new parking places; 1,000 share-a-bike stations; 348 miles of new subway track; 125 miles of new downtown streets; 23 miles of tunnels; 9 fresh transportation hubs; 3 congestion zones; and 1 cure-all, "the use of modern technology." Never let it be said that China, big headed consumer of more than half the planet's cement, thinks small. For in the hottest match between Beijing's build-baby-build bureaucrats and its Gordian knot of traffic, more than a few folks are betting on the knot.
"We have built many flyovers and expressways," said Zhao Jie, a transportation authority at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design. "We have exhausted quite a lot of money on subways and bus lines, and Beijing most likely has the lowest bus fares in the world. But the stimuli to car possession are even more authoritative."
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