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No shortcuts to smooth traffic flows

By Li Xing | China Daily | Updated: 2007-09-27 07:25

No shortcuts to smooth traffic flows

My colleagues and I met at the office and got on a bus bound for Yuyuantan Park, by the Millennium Museum, on Saturday at 4:45 pm.

We were supposed to arrive there well before 6 pm and then board a boat to cruise along the channel linking the western part of Beijing to the Summer Palace. The tour was a special offer by the channel management company.

However, as soon as the bus turned onto the northern third ring road, it slowed to a crawl. The problem wasn't the bus, which was in perfect condition, but the road, which seemed more like slow-moving parking lot than a thoroughfare.

No shortcuts to smooth traffic flows

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