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- frontaxle, on 09/02/2008, -1/+22Hey! What's that blue color up there?
- askorkin, on 09/01/2008, -0/+6well if this works anywhere, it will be in china, lets face it i don't see new yorkers agreeing to drive on alternate days :)
- ChinaLumberjack, on 09/02/2008, -0/+4Taking the cars off the road was not only a pollution measure; it was also a traffic measure. I am not even sure how much pollution was reduced, as 75% of consumption comes from secondary industries (raw materials --> products)
Traffic jams are all too common in Beijing. 8AM jam, 9AM jam, lunch jam, mid-afternoon jam, late-afternoon jam. Jam, jam jam....
Forget Tokyo subways, Beijing subways are far more crowded. On Monday, a subway platform at a main juncture was full. I mean you could not get onto the platform because it was so full of people. People wait in line and take the second or third train that comes because they cannot get onto the first one.
They are working on expanding the subway system. July before the Olympics the number of lines doubled. By 2015 the subway system will double yet again. The government certainly know what they are doing; unlike in my home country of Canada where public transit has been overrun by unions and short-sighted politicians. - elk1, on 09/02/2008, -0/+4Time to buy a second pair of plates for the car.
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3most of China's air is good, as long as it's not in the city. Too much people compress and live in the cities. go to the rural area, great air there.
- jbella, on 09/02/2008, -0/+3Its a developing country. Most people live on less than a dollar a day. The expansion of opportunity and wealth has led to the environmental problems they have now. You tell someone that used to live on a dollar a day that they have to go back to that so that they can have cleaner air and they will tell you to go ***** yourself.
If it's any consolation, they have sacrificed their air and water quality so that you can buy 12 tube socks for 6 bucks at Walmart. - neonbrunette, on 09/02/2008, -0/+2http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/68/img0022dy4.j ...
I went to the olympics and was blown away by the sky's color. Definitely an improvement. Normally the sky is a permanent haze of gray smog. Hope they find a permanent solution. - legoalert33, on 09/02/2008, -1/+3That just means it has been bad for 10+ years.
- sndream, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1Just talking about TTC make me remember how horrible our transits is.
- WikiEasy, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1It won't work anywhere. All you're doing is gaming the system for people to own 2 cars. Why not go all the way then, and just say no cars period?
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -3/+4what future? as far as i am concerned there is no future for the clean air of bejing, and there hasn't been a past for a while.
- honeybrass, on 09/02/2008, -0/+1In China it is not a matter of agreeing
- jbella, on 09/02/2008, -1/+2You never see environmentalists criticize china? Have you been living under a rock for that last 20 years?
China, and the developing world are one of the biggest concerns. They are not yet as big of a polluter as the US, and a single US citizen still uses a lot more resources than a Chinese citizen, but that is rapidly changing. If all of China were to consume as much per capita as the US, then it would be a total disaster for the world. - ABadPerson, on 09/02/2008, -1/+1May be the air quality will be three times worst than before because some factories would want to make up for the state mandated reduction in production the last few months.
- KevinAndAlexRoc, on 09/02/2008, -2/+2Ah, now I know why my family left China. Seems to be worse then just the air, how about the censorship of their internet? I searched Chinese Google and found no "free speech".
- fuzzybeard, on 09/02/2008, -1/+1I wonder...if the Chinese government made this permanent, would they also institute a "1 Family, 1 Car" policy modeled after their "1 Family, 1 Child" policy to ensure that it would work?
- KevinAndAlexRoc, on 09/02/2008, -1/+1I just love how the environmentalists always point the finger at the US. I mean sure, we do our fair share, but why don't they take a peak at China.
- sklter84, on 09/02/2008, -1/+1They should get better cars instead of ***** Fords.
- avitorio, on 09/02/2008, -2/+2Why not? Anyone who's not willing to make an effort to improve the quality of the air they breath aren't worth the ***** they *****...
- soapandfoam, on 09/02/2008, -2/+2Cars with odd-numbered plates were limited to driving on odd numbered dates, and even plates to even dates.
oh China, you used to be cool.
CHINA STILL COOL! - ChinaLumberjack, on 09/02/2008, -1/+1Impossible. Many cars are business owned. (You gotta take your client around)
If such a policy were instated, many cars would quickly become business owned. - IllBeBack, on 09/02/2008, -2/+2Just keep all of those factories closed permanently and the air will stay clear. Since China's air adds to L.A.'s smog, it should help them out too.
And everyone will need to switch back to bicycles, of course.
Problem solved. - ChinaLumberjack, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0Not that easy. You have to buy a second car.
- gkiltz, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0As the trees finally grow out, some of the CO2 will go away by itself.
As China's population ages, a lot of the manufacturing will dry up, and it won't be so bad! - ChinaLumberjack, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0The last couple days the air has been phenomenal.
I could see all the way to the mountains from my apartment. I didn't even know there were mountains! - atlquaker, on 09/02/2008, -1/+1"But the step that most directly affected Beijing residents was the program for talking half of the city’s 3.3 million cars off the road each day." wow. who would have guessed. less cars on road = less pollution.
- eball, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0Why do so many people think that the pollution problems over them come from the number of cars on the road?? Most of their pollution problems come from lax controls over industrial pollution. The better air quality (though still very, very bad IMHO) is largely a part of the fact that the heavy industrial polluters were shut down months before the Olympics.
- honeybrass, on 09/02/2008, -0/+0The clean air left town as bad gangs moved in and started to take over the neighborhood. Basically it was looking for a safer, more friendly community. I believe it is still wandering the globe.
- MilesyMiles, on 09/02/2008, -1/+0Not to mention how much of a pain in the ass it was to make sure everyone got their own keys back.
- cfuse, on 09/02/2008, -3/+1The city is a filthy cesspit, with air that could be cut with a knife because the pollution is so bad - and this is after the clean up. Cleaning up after yourself is a basic skill, it's it about time the Chinese people learnt it?
- ZeeZee2k, on 09/02/2008, -4/+1nuke some of the mountains around Beijing would reduce the smog in the summer.
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -7/+02econd
- inactive, on 09/02/2008, -8/+1Didn't BBC do daily measurements of the air quality and found that it didn't improve much at all throughout the Olympics. So how exactly can Beijing say it was the best air quality in 10 years?
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