Comments on: On World Car Free Day In Beijing, Severe Traffic Jams http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/on-world-car-free-day-in-beijing-severe-traffic-jams/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: terroir http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/on-world-car-free-day-in-beijing-severe-traffic-jams/#comment-232517 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:56:01 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=18437#comment-232517 People pay for that privilege.

]]> By: James http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/on-world-car-free-day-in-beijing-severe-traffic-jams/#comment-232515 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:44:01 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=18437#comment-232515 I drove around on Sunday, it wasn’t nearly as bad as that image claims. CBD, sure, but if you’re driving around the CBD during peak anything, you’re an idiot to begin with.

]]> By: terroir http://beijingcream.com/2013/09/on-world-car-free-day-in-beijing-severe-traffic-jams/#comment-232510 Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:01:17 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=18437#comment-232510 I have a wish. It is for World Car Free Day to become real in China. Because of “Chinese characteristics”, this “China Car Free Day” will mean something else: that every single person is entitled to a car. For free.

The car will be according to the person’s wishes, and so it will be black. And shiny. And of a model number that everyone can live with – foreigners will have lesser models.

To realize this dream, hundreds of millions of cars will hit the streets. And so with that many cars and that much congestion, the concept of a “car” will change in China to have the “Chinese characteristics”, much like how “capitalism” and “socialism” have brand new meanings.

And so cars won’t be used for transportation anymore. They’ll just be for sitting in and maintaining one’s status.

At last, China will be happy. And that is my wish.

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