A Local Rides his Bicycle Past Parked Cars
Date: 08-Oct-08
Country: CHINA
Author: David Gray
Photo: David Gray
Flushed with the success of Olympic traffic controls and struck by the painful return to congested normality, Beijing unveiled plans last week for smaller-scale but permanent controls on its drivers.
Cars will be banned from the roads one out of five weekdays, in a system based on the number of their license plate, and 30 percent of government cars will be taken off the road entirely, the official Xinhua agency reported.
The new rules will kick in for a six-month trial on October 11.
