Sunday, November 9, 2008

Traffic in Shenyang

Two weeks are gone and I still cannot get use to the traffic in Shenyang. First thing that I noticed when I came here was that all the streets are very wide and very long. It is total madness to cross the street!! You can see the video below how cars, bicycles, tricycle, motorbikes and people are trying to go all at the same time. I have never seen such a mess. In general it looks like as there are no rules on the roads. Even tough pedestrians have a green light and can cross the street they still need to watch out for cars and bikes coming from right hand side. Moreover Chinese don’t use pavements for walking! They usually use both sides of the actual street and it doesn’t matter that there is a lot of cars. On the other hand cars can be found driving on the footpaths and bike lanes. They usually beep on people to move from their way!

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