Bicycles will be banned in Shanghai next year in order to ease congestion. Ummm, if you're trying to ease congestion, you might want to think about banning cars, not bikes. Yes, I read the whole article, and I know that they have also taken steps to reduce the number of cars in the city centre, but banning bikes seems completely counter-productive. The fraction of the cyclists that can actually afford cars will end up driving instead of biking, and even if that's a small fraction it's still more cars on the road, plus a whole lot more pedestrians. But I guess the communist party limousine takes precedence over 9 million cyclists.