One thing I kind of love about Beijing (outside of 798) is the limited driving days. Since there are so many people, so many cars and so much traffic, everyone has one day a week (Monday through Friday) where they are cannot drive. This is dependent upon the last number of the license plates and rotates quarterly. So if your license plate number ends in 8, maybe January through March you will not be able to drive on Mondays, April through June you will not be able to drive Tuesdays, etc.
It seems like a good system to me, it encourages carpooling and is fair with the quarterly rotation, so everyone experiences the inconvenience on different days. No one is exempt, even if they must drive as part of their job (i.e. taxi driver, private driver, delivery driver).
This is actually the one traffic law that I have seen enforced here.
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