Saturday, October 16, 2010

Yi's report - Driving in China


In China, we have speed limit, according to China Traffic Regulations, the speed can up to 70km/h on city road which include two lanes per direction, but driving on national highway, the speed can up to 80km/h, regarding the motorway, the maximum speed is 120km/h. However enforcement of these rules usually depend on road condition, for example driving on some dangerous road such as hilly road or spiral road, the speed cannot be higher than 30km/h, this rule can protect drivers who might be badly injured and even dead if they don’t keep this rule. However tragedies still happened during past several years, some drivers neglected this regulation and drove in a high speed or others nodded off when they drove.

As well as this, bicycle is another problem. I studied in Tianjin for 5 years, the number of bicycles in Tianjin were considerable more than these of in other cities, for people in Tianjin usually went to work by bikes. During peak time, a great deal of bikes plus a vast number of vehicles which might lead to traffic accidents easily. But such accidents rarely happened during the past five years, because we had bicycle lanes where people rode their bicycles and a lot of related measures were strictly implemented which can protect pedestrian and bicycle riders to large extend.

Driving license is one of the most important qualifications which can prove certain person who has ability to drive. In China, people over 16-year-old can apply for a drive license. Prior to getting a drive license, people must pass some exams. However there are some problems, 16-year-old people are too young, they haven’t formed a right attitude to driving, for the most part, they drive because they want some thrill which is the cause of terrible accident.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Yi,

    It sounds like those bicycle lanes were a welcome addition! With so many people, cycling in Tianjin must have been quite scary.

    Some feedback:

    Your sentence "16-year-old people are too young" has good grammar as '16-year-old' is used as an adjective here, meaning young.

    However, your other sentence needs to change to "In China, people over 16 years" because 'over', being a preposition, needs to be followed by the noun 'years'.

    Carolyn

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