{"id":321,"date":"2008-11-05T14:35:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/11\/big-busses-little-shops\/"},"modified":"2008-11-14T13:07:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T18:07:47","slug":"big-busses-little-shops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/2008\/11\/big-busses-little-shops\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Busses; Little Shops"},"content":{"rendered":"

So many of the city busses are “double” — one driver, two busses.\u00a0 Public transportation is the way to go because there simply is not enough parking spaces.\u00a0 There are 70,000 taxis in Shanghai.\u00a0 Not sure how many are in Beijing…probably about the same.\u00a0 And there are almost as many bicycles and motor scooters (not motor cycles) as there are cars and taxis.\u00a0 In Suzhou and parts of Beijing, there are separate divided lanes for bikes.\u00a0 At each traffic light there may be 50 bikes and scooters waiting for the light\u00a0 to turn green. People carry groceries, dogs, and kids.\u00a0 The kids don’t even hold on; we’ve seen them eating or reading a book as they sit behind their parents zipping along at 30+ mph.<\/p>\n

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In the sections of Beijing, the scantily-stocked shops are tiny.\u00a0 They are called xiaomaibu and often the owners specialize.\u00a0 One may sell paper products, another bottles, and the next one bamboo steamer baskets.\u00a0\u00a0 Very often vendors just spread an old blanket on the sidewalk and sell their goods from there — picking up and moving if business is slow.<\/p>\n

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We won’t be blogging again till we get home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LAST DAY:\u00a0\u00a0 one more adventure in Beijing then the sleeper train to Shanghai.\u00a0 A final day in Shanghai before flying out in the evening.\u00a0 All without any sleep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So many of the city busses are “double” — one driver, two busses.\u00a0 Public transportation is the way to go because there simply is not enough parking spaces.\u00a0 There are 70,000 taxis in Shanghai.\u00a0 Not sure how many are in Beijing…probably about the same.\u00a0 And there are almost as many bicycles and motor scooters (not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beijing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxonweb.net\/chinablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}