Letters and Blogs

Civilized behavior

People need to queue up because only when everyone behaves this way will everyone get what they want (as counter-intuitive as that sounds). The government should budget more money to educate citizens and hire more officers to enforce civilized behavior. Leaving people to their own devices (through lack of enforcement) will not solve the problem.

Crossing road junctions any- where in China, even in "civilized" Shanghai, can be hazardous because drivers (including public transport drivers) always seem to be able to "turn right on red" without heeding pedestrians. Also at road junctions, right-turning vehicles compete head-on with oncoming traffic for use of the junction space. Why can't China have a traffic light system where time is allocated specially for turning traffic instead of having these two kinds of drivers competing head-to-head for space on the road? China has so many smart people in government, surely this flaw should be apparent to everyone.