On rickshaws and government failure
论三轮车与“政府失灵”
I first came to Beijing as a student in 2003, when the ubiquity and cheapness of taxis (they were red in those days) was frankly a delight. I could go almost anywhere in Beijing for the price of a can of Coke in London. I don’t remember many rickshaws on the roads. In 2008 I returned to live in Haidian for half a year; again, the only place I remember seeing rickshaws was Houhai, where I looked on them with disdain ...
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