Why experience a traffic jam and all of its frustrations when you can pay someone else to do it for you?
Just because it’s your car and your journey doesn’t mean you don’t have other more pressing things to do and better ways to spend your time. Right?
So why not hire someone to fill in for you?
This has been the solution for many Chinese motorists who find themselves stuck in the never-ending maze of traffic.
Clever business entrepreneurs have come up with the ultimate lemons/lemonade agenda, and it is working to assuage tempers in the massive gridlock across the car-crazy land known as China.
The way it works is that anyone of China’s 1.3 billion car owners can now escape the encroaching horror of the traffic jam by calling for a substitute driver to take their cars to their destinations. Once the transfer is complete, the drivers are whisked away on the backs of motorcycles.
“The service is for those with urgent dates or business meetings to go to, and those who have flights to catch and can’t afford to wait in a traffic jam for too long,” says Huang Xizhong, whose company offers the service in the central city of Wuhan.
The service is also available in the eastern city of Jinan, where drivers can pay more than 400 yuan ($60) to escape a traffic jam. Other cities might willingly follow suit save for rules barring motorcycles on some of the nation’s freeways.
Beijing has the dubious honor of being tied with Mexico City for the worst traffic jams in the world.
Proxies for traffic jams are one way to deal with the problem and it’s pretty clever at that.
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Remember when a picture featuring transportation in China featured the BICYCLE as the popular mode of locomotion? Where as, the same type of photo featuring Americans, had the automobile as the mode of transport. Here's my point……look around ANY American city or town. Have you ever seen as many people getting around on bikes, vespas or cheap motor scooters? Well it ain't because the Chinese are getting lazy and Americans becoming more "energy aware"…..its because we;re getting poorer and they're getting richer. NOW…KEEP TRUSTING YOUR POLITICIANS……they're allowing multinational companies and Wall St fleece the US TREASURY and WILL NOT TAKE THE STEPS NEEDED TO FORCE CHINA, INDIA, BRAZIL and THE REST OF THE EMERGING ECONOMIC POWERHOUSES TO PLAY FAIR IN THE WORLD MARKET…..WE CAN NOT COMPETE UNLESS THE PLAYING FIELD IS LEVEL……MR OBAMA