The air pollution in China isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Unless you are standing in the middle of the street in heavy traffic, I don’t notice anything. I’m starting to get used to riding the bus and crossing the street to get to the bus stop. Crossing the street can be very strange here. People cross anywhere along the street and they will usually cross halfway and then wait in the very center of the street and then cross the other half when clear. On many of the major roads, fences are put up in the middle of the street to prevent this, but on smaller roads you just have to walk right out there in traffic.
Intersections have even more chaos with people ignoring cross walk signals, bicycles going every direction, and it is a fight between pedestrians and cars to who gets to go first. More times than not, both go. You see 25 people crossing the street and then a turning car tries to plow its way through the people. And then once in a while I see a horse pulling a food cart on a six lane road with skyscrapers nearby. So you have pedestrians, bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles, cars, buses and horse sharing the same road.