Who thinks that there’s lots of wealth in China.

This is Monday morning rush hour in downtown Beijing. Sure, there’s cars and buses, but every major street has lanes set aside strictly for bikes.  There’s money, but it’s not all trickling down to the common folk at the level they can all afford to buy cars – yet. Our guide mentioned that motorcycles are very cheap, but they slapped a $5000 registration fee on them which puts them back out of range for most folks. Why? They don’t want Beijing to turn into another Bangkok, where scooters and motorcycles far outnumber cars, control the traffic flow and dominate the noise/air pollution.