When radical solutions are called for

Academic thinks he has answers to some of China's pressing problems

Steve Rayner has a China dream - and it is a very special one at that. In this dream he sees cities with clear blue skies and roads that have been totally freed of private cars.

Rayner, a James Martin professor of Science and Civilization at Oxford University's School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, advocates ridding China's roads of private cars as a way of solving the problem of congestion that dogs many Chinese cities.