Simplicity is the Key to Successful Living...

I've been in Beijing all week. Rush hour traffic jams are the norm these days as car ownership is increasing at a startling rate. I saw plenty of cyclists but nowhere near as many as I was expecting. A colleague I was with first visited China 12 years ago and he's amazed, and saddened, by the rise of car usage and the decline of cycling.

The use of vehicles with at least 4 wheels, is encouraged by the governments of these places too, as they see it as being more modern and less congested than the diorganised mess of Bikes/motorbikes etc.

Plus automotive companies have been pushing hard to get asia more into cars.

But thats besides the point, just saying people riding bikes does not equal the great utopia some people assume, nor is such a thought in a relevant context to many places (USA) The world is more complicated.