Beijingers urged to get back on their bikes - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Beijingers urged to get back on their bikes
Sat Aug 4, 2007 2:43AM EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Foreign experts have urged Beijing
to limit the use of private cars, improve public transport
and get people back on their bikes to curb congestion
during the 2008 Olympics, state media said on Saturday.

The government plans to keep more than 1 million cars
off the roads on average to improve traffic flow during
the Games, Xinhua news agency said, quoting Liu
Xiaoming, deputy director of the Beijing Traffic
Committee, speaking at a conference.

Dave Wetzel, fellow of Britain's Chartered Institute of
Logistics and Transport, said private cars were limited
in central London by high charges and stressed limiting
the use of company cars in Beijing.

"Government officials should also be encouraged to use
public transportation or ride bicycles," he told the
conference.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSPEK930420070804

[Warpy]

1. Good luck to that, fellas

If you think the average, status conscious newly wealthy city people are going back to the Communist days of bicycles and streetcars, you're nuts.

Patriotism is not going that far.

[Javaman]

2. Fat chance.

once the mtv is let out of the bottle, no one walks in Beijing (to paraphrase the Missing Persons)