With more Chinese people getting behind the wheel every day, traffic jams are a major headache in most cities but the gridlock has become an opportunity for some entrepreneurs who are offering an escape route – for a price.
Drivers who get stuck in traffic in some cities can now get on their mobile phones and call for a substitute to take their cars to their destinations while the frustrated drivers are whisked away on the back of a motorcycle.
Here is more and for the pointer I thank Serkan Kara.
I would definitely pay for this sometimes in the US. It might be a good business to start! But imagine the regulations and liabilities and hassles … it'd be hell just to get a "motorcycle taxiing" license, and zipping through a traffic jam is a big no-no in most jurisdictions. No, it could never work here.
See! See how my entrepreneurial spirit is sapped before it even starts to pump through my bloodstream by a feeling of an impossible legal environment and suppressive system of endless rules?
Roads that congested are a depression predictor.
Car use has to be made so expensive (by taxes and congestion charges) that buses and trains become a viable alternative for almost everyone.
Andreas: perhaps it looks closer to what the US could have had were our cars and highway systems not so horrifically subsidized
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