Shanghai's Bike Ban

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Congress on New Urbanism Listserv

10 December 2003 - 7:00am

Shanghai, China bans bikes -- the country's most common form of transportation -- on major roads to make more room for cars.

Police will also raise fines tenfold for cycling infractions such as running red lights... such measures aim to "control the number of bicycles on city streets... Bicycles were long kings of the road in China, hailed by the country's communist leaders as the perfect proletarian transport: cheap, efficient and egalitarian... 'Bicycles put great pressure on the city's troubled traffic situation,' Shanghai Daily quoted Chen, the police official, as saying."

Full Story: China's Shanghai Bans Bikes on Main Roads

Source: Associated Press, October 14, 2005