In larger cities like Beijing where both road and foot traffic are high, Travel guide China said that crossing the street can be an ordeal.

1. China abnormal traffic rules:jump amber light twice , lose your
license
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abnormal-traffic-rulesjump-amber.html
In larger cities like Beijing where both road and foot traffic are high, Travel guide
China said that crossing the street can be an ordeal. Many westerners are accustomed to
drivers having to yield to them, sometimes obsequiously. But in China, drivers will only
reluctantly yield the right of way to pedestrians. In China, pedestrians do most of the
yielding, even at junctures where walk signals are operational. Every visitor to China
should be prepared to face this reality.
Dri¬ving in China is more haz¬ardous and dan¬ger¬ous than almost any other place
in the world. Mainly for two rea¬sons: firstly 80% of car own¬ers are first time
dri¬vers. So they don’t have expe-ri¬ence and road sense that we grow up with in the
west. Sec¬ondly: most dri¬vers ignore the traf-fic rules and reg¬u¬la¬tions because
they don’t agree with them and the penal¬ties are low and not enforced.
How¬ever, this was set to change in the New Year when the gov¬ern¬ment
intro¬duced new laws. This would mean tighter restric¬tions and tougher penal¬ties to
reduce traf¬fic fatal¬i¬ties and make the roads safer. The most con¬tro¬ver¬sial new
law stated that if you jumped an “amber” light you would get a six point penalty on

2. your license. Which is the same penalty for jump¬ing a red light, so if you did it twice
you would lose your license.
How¬ever, there has been so much oppo¬si¬tion from dri¬ver that the
gov¬ern¬ment has caved in and sus¬pend this new law. As some¬one who have
dri¬ven in China for sev¬eral years I agree with this new law and think it should
have remained. It may be harsh but at present when dri¬vers see amber traf¬fic lights
they just speed up try¬ing to get passed before it turns red. An amber light in China
means “drive faster”, whereas in the west in means slow down and dri¬vers do. At the
end of the day any¬thing that can cut speed¬ing cars and make the roads safer has to
be good for everyone.