Henry B is a former journalist and current associate creative director for a Minneapolis-based web media company. He published this highly entertaining post about traffic in Beijing on his So I’m Going To China blog:
As I may have mentioned before, traffic in Beijing is its own art form. The city is adding thousands of cars per – I don’t even know, week? Which means you have a healthy mix of people who have never driven before interspersed with people who should never have been driving in the first place.To introduce you to the intricacies of Beijing driving, I will start with a relatively simple concept: the left turn. [Full Text]