To a Chinese hammer, everything's a nail
After news escaped about a 60-mile traffic jam stretching from the outskirts of Beijing toward the border of Inner Mongolia in August, city officials lowered the boom on car owners. Since Beijing had 700,000 more vehicles at the end of 2010 than it did at the beginning, they announced that they would limit registrations and allocate them with a license-plate lottery system. Nothing was said about untangling traffic by preventing drivers from stopping in the middle of highways, sleeping during traffic jams, ignoring traffic signals, or driving on the opposite side of the street.
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Last updated December 31 2010: 9:35 AM ET
