@安娜830321‘s final tweet on Sina Weibo said it all. “So drunk, but still gotta drive home,” posted the tipsy young woman with a photo of herself in a car on August 19 at 4:29am. The next day, local news in Shantou, Guangdong Province, reported that a white BMW rammed into a road barrier in early [...]
Beijing, a city of 20 million, is planning to take harsh measures against its notorious traffic jams. According to The Beijing News (@新京报), a local newspaper, the Beijing transportation bureau is reviving a radical scheme that could keep half of its private cars off the road by 2013 in order to mitigate the capital’s notorious [...]
A weeklong holiday and a suspension of highway tolls? What’s not to like? Turns out everyone in China thought the same thing. 740 million people, or half of China’s population, are reportedly on the move during this holiday week combo of National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. Tea Leaf Nation shares some of the most vivid [...]
Three were killed and five injured early Friday morning (Aug 24, 2012) at about 5:30 AM by the collapse of the Yangmingtan Bridge in Harbin, the capital of northeastern Heilongjiang Province. The collapsed part, which measures 100 meters in length, fell from a height of some 30 meters above ground, bringing down four trucks with [...]
Ever wondered what would happen if you tried to resist a police sobriety test? Apparently, in Shenzhen, China, they’ll break your window. Recently a driver of a tony BMW X5 in the prosperous southern Chinese city was stopped by traffic police during an anti-drunk driving sweep. Instead of rolling down his window and taking [...]
Cars have changed China. As Peter Hessler discussed in his book Country Driving, published in 2011, the developments of China’s roads and its driving culture are in many ways an apt microcosm for China’s development as a whole. It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that a 10-year graphic retrospective on China’s roads by the Chinese website [...]
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