Easing Games traffic

Ji Lin, vice-mayor of Beijing, said on Wednesday that 50 percent of vehicles used by government departments, institutions and State-owned enterprises will be sealed, apart from ordering vehicles to stay off the roads every other day according to even and odd numbered license plates, to guarantee smooth traffic during the Olympic Games.

This is a move that should be lauded.

We still remember that the action to seal 490,000 public vehicles during the week in November 2006 when the Beijing Summit of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation was held had considerably eased traffic congestion and air pollution in the capital.