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It seems China had a solution, but no more. When I grew up in China, cities had dedicated bike lanes. Each lane was at least 2-car wide, and was separated from car lanes by a green belt, so bicyclists were safe. The bike lanes disappeared or shrank in width as China got more and more cars, and the green belts were removed as well, making it a lot more dangerous for bicyclists.

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This was not solution.

This is same, as complaints in exUSSR countries, that when where communists, roads where empty, and traffic issues does not exists.

In reality, people where so poor, that there was less than 1/10th automobiles, which normal similar western city has, so those automobiles number was not enough to create traffic issues.

China current officials are essentially same communists as soviet, so they used obvious things for propaganda, and does not do real measures as long as possible.

Western world is not ideal, but at least it is honest- we could talk free about such things; we could critic officials, and we could suggest solutions and take part in implementing them.

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