Just as slum clearances destroy real housing resources for the poor, cycle-rickshaw bans eliminate real transportation resources for the poor, hurting hundreds of thousands of people who frequently lack the political power to defend their mobility systems and jobs. Chinese transport policies have been quite different from this pattern. In the 1950s, China began offering employee commuter subsidies for those bicycling to work, accelerated bicycle production, and allocated extensive urban street space to bicycle traffic. Many planners in Chinese cities have been discussing problems caused by widespread violation of traffic regulations by cyclists. Very heavy bicycle traffic flows frequently lead to overflow of cycle traffic into motorized traffic lanes and violation of traffic signals.
Many Chinese planners call for public education about traffic regulations.
In many Chinese cities, workers have recently been organized to help the police enforce traffic order. The Chinese government stopped collecting a use tax for bicycles in 1980. Some Chinese planners suggest a restoration of such fees to slow further growth of bicycle ownership. Most Chinese transport experts agree tend to agree that different policies need to be pursued in cities of different sizes. In large cities with severe bicycle traffic congestion, bus, subway, and rail public transport should be better developed to attract long-distance cyclists, reducing mean bicycle trip lengths.