| This problem has concerned me for a long time as well, not only those blocks, but more frustrating thing is those construction workers, they were holding long painting brushes or shovels and they have no idea standing in the middle of the road is creating more traffic problems and somewhat attempting to kill themselves as well. I especially like your idea of a city attorney, but like you said, people's mindset is far too difficult to change. BTW, last Saturday(22nd), I was in Gubei grocery shopping, I was too shocked to realize the traffic was actually even more crazier than ever. Jianshuo, what do you think of the traffic situation last Saturday? Coz to me, I thought the plan was somewhat gonna affect many people? But it just didn't work that way. I don't want to say the idea of no car day is just a show-off case of the government, but I do not understand what's the point of two other phenomena: a. since the government wants to show to the world how much they care about air pollution, why don't they invest more to replace those old buses and vans with extremely untolerable pollution(I'm sure you've seen those bad-conditioned buses that emit thick black foggy thing) b. I heard that one of the highlights in the special Olympics to be held next month would be the fireworks directed by an Italian guy, which said to be comparable to the Olympics in Athens. Well, I feel very frustrated and confused, but all I can understand is to think in this way: there are different sections of the government run the various projects, and they don't cross check what each department is engaged doing, and the most important is the big boss of the government never care to balance. |
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