Drive cars from the city

Drivers are fuming about the hikes in downtown parking fees introduced on April 1 but, instead of parking their gas-guzzlers at home and taking public transport, which was what the people who introduced the fees hoped would happen, many motorists are thinking outside the box and looking for new parking possibilities.

Evidence of this was a recent online posting by a netizen called Song Le who drafted an article for a blog about the alternative parking available in the downtown.

Song's words of wisdom, entitled Tips on Parking Cars in Beijing 2010, was highlighted as a featured post on auto.mop, a popular automobile-obsessed forum. From there, its fame spread and within hours it was as popular as a Volkswagen Bug, popping up on hundreds of mainstream websites and seen by hundreds of thousands.