pavement driving – Joe Dunckley

AWWTM: Crap cycling and walking in Beijing

This entry was posted in at war with the motorist and tagged beijing china crap cycleways crap walking parking pavement cycling pavement driving pavement parking photo essays on September 26, 2010 by Joe

Over at At War With The Motorist, I look at another of the obvious ill-effects of Beijing’s burgeoning car dependency — the plague of badly parked cars filling the pavements and cycle paths. You can read it here. Also, try out our China traffic quiz: what’s wrong with this picture?

Shared space in Beijing

This entry was posted in at war with the motorist and tagged anarchy beijing china jaywalking pavement driving shared space on September 21, 2010 by Joe

At At War With The Motorist, I continue the threads on the concept of shared space and on transport in Beijing, looking at how roads work and how road users behave in a city where traffic management is meaningless, and the road belongs to whoever can take it. Read it […]