Beijing's Plans to Fix Traffic Problems with 'Congestion Fee' Stuck in Slow Lane

(Beijing) – At a press conference in Beijing in December, Steve Kearns of Transport for London, the city's public transport operator, displayed two photographs. Both showed London streets, one at the end of 19th century, the other at the end of 20th.

"It's hard to imagine that these two pictures are separated by only 100 years, judging by the primitive modes of transport we used before," Kearns said, a reference to the horse carts in the first picture.