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I like this photo as symbolic of China's reforms: red and green lights on at once.

This picture was taken on the major highway that goes through the Olympic park, where I pass daily on my way to work. This highway is, at its narrowest, 3 lanes in each direction, and as wide as 6. It is also blocked off in the middle, as part of the "park". Blocked off not only from cars, but officially from bicycles too - why? If they want to extend the Olympic green to the park, why did they build a 6-lane highway? Perhaps grass and flowers would be more appreciated than blacktop. It makes no sense.

And below, one of my favorite Chinglish signs, a reminder to courtesy on the buses. I especially like it because it showed up just before the Olympics, amidst all the news stories about how the problem of poor translations had "been overcome".

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