Automobile Blog July Archive

Beijing's Traffic Scheme for the 2008 Summer Olympics

By Tony Stark at 07/22/08 06:09

Last Sunday, Beijing officials started its ambitious attempt to clear the Chinese sky out of pollution before the Olympic Games starts on August 8-24. The traffic scheme program will last for two months, clearly indicating that the Chinese government is only concern for the coming Olympics, and not for a life long solution to reduce their pollution problems.

The traffic program sees reducing cars on the road for the next two months by regulating the ones that can drive on their car and the ones that cannot. This is done by having an odd-even traffic scheme. If your car's plate ends with an odd number, you can drive today, but sorry you cannot for tomorrow. I can't believe that they are just implementing this now. A relatively smaller and poorer country in South East Asia have this traffic program for more than a decade now!

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