The traffic in Yinchuan is quite different from the one we are used to back home. Huge roads in the city, 4-8 lanes, lot’s of cars, tricycles, motorcycles, mopeds and bicycles. And because of that as a pedestrian we have to pay really close attention before and when crossing the road. There is also two lanes outside campus next to the road, for bicycles and the smaller vehicles mentioned above. The Norwegian way of looking left – right – left is not sufficient here. When crossing the road, we constantly have to look left and right, fast, use all our senses and stop several times on the way over the broad roads.
The roads here are well maintained, newly build, and has capacity for alot more cars. They are obviously built for the nextcoming years and generation(s). Owning a car in China is not something anyone can do. It is to expensive for the normal family here. If a family owns a car, it means that they have solid and above the normal level of income.
In general the drivers do not pay as close attention to the pedestrians as home, and as a pedestrian we enjoy less respect than at home. As a consequence of that we have to keep our senses sharpened when being out in the traffic.
The collective
transport here in Yinchuan is busses, minibuses, taxi and tricycle (rickshaw). Tricycle(rickshaw)
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