Public should be consulted on city's restriction of private cars

THE STATE-SPONSORED Beijing Transportation Research Center recently announced their "conclusion" that banning cars from the roads on alternate days based on odd-even license plates, something that has been implemented six times in Beijing since 2007, has eased traffic pressure. That's a shallow conclusion, says an opinion article on sznews.com:

It seems some domestic "experts" have mastered no knowledge deeper than math at the primary-school level. The conclusion of the report, obviously favoring an odd-even vehicle ban, can be simply put as the following: prohibit half of the cars from running on the roads and you will ease traffic.

It is shameless for them to boast such a conclusion as a "research achievement". It is something self-evident and known to everybody. Its spread by some media outlets can be explained by nothing but political correctness, namely echoing the rumor that the authorities intend to implement the odd-even formula permanently.