BRT helps to ease traffic woes

Beijing is working on another two BRT (bus rapid transit) lines after the first line was put into operation last year, in a bid to extend the city's BRT lines to 60 km before the opening of the 2008 Olympics.

The capital city has taken the lead in China and among developing countries in its development of a BRT system, with international business leaders expressing their appreciation of the city's efforts on Friday.

Beijing's first BRT line has 90 18-metre long buses that are able to carry 145,000 people every day.