Why Does the Chicken Wanna Cross the Road
I just "like" crossing the roads in Suzhou. You just don’t know when you be joinning the long statistics of the road accidents that happens here. And man, what an adrenaline rush. Just this Sunday, after doing my Sunday marketing at Carrefour, yes, yes, they have Carrefour in China now, I was standing right on the edge of the road, in front of a divider when a bus pulled in right in front of me. I didn’t even notice the bus, until I could see the side wall of the bus.
There are bicycle lanes here in Suzhou. You have to cross the bicycle lane before you cross the main road meant for cars and then another bicycle lane meant for bicycles travelling in the opposite direction. Though the bicycles here are much smaller than cars, they are as notorious.
The good thing about the bicycles here is that a lot of them are "hybrids". They have a dynamo and electric motor mounted on their bike. The dynamo stores energy in a battery when the cyclist is pedalling, and the motor uses this energy to rotate the wheels when the cyclist is not pedalling and damn are these babies cheap. Am so tempted to ship one back to Malaysia and uses it to cycle to work.
