Taxi's in Beijing

Yesterday I watched a show on PBS called Beijing are you ready? What they where asking if Beijing is ready for the 2008 Olympics.

This show is a series, yesterday's show had to do with transportation, taxi's included.

The picture on the left show 3 taxi's each with a different color combination, and the one on the right is a cab stand at rush hour, are you jealous .

This show was shot a few years ago, it talked about roads that would be done in 2006 and 2007.

Something that amazed me was all the street and subway signs are in Chinese and English, it also showed cab drivers taking mandatory English lessons.

The traffic in Beijing is beyond bad, I am from New York and know traffic and have been to LA and its equally bad. If you think the traffic on 275 in downtown is bad now with the construction, wow the traffic in Beijing is from another planet.