The Chinese government, and also the local Beijing government, have much information on internet, and also often in English. Beijing Traffic Management Bureau, 北京市公安局公安交通管理局, have an interesting page on the web that show a real time picture of the actual traffic situation in Beijing. (there are also a simplified English version)
If you have a special interest in infra structure or just like to see if you shall select subway or taxi, then this could be a good page for you. The engineering side of me like this type real time data.
Sometimes it it is easy to get pissed off because the taxi driver select strange ways, but I believe they pretty often have good knowledge about the traffic situation. The times when I re-direct the taxi cars, it is not usual that we end up in traffic jam, and then you will get a aggressive monolog from the driver that is not so easy to reply.
Green = Free Flowing
Yellow = Slow
Red = Congested
The traffic situation a typical thursday evening. 2:nd, 3:rd and 4:th ring road goes slow or are even congested on several places. At this time it is often not so funny to do a longer taxi ride.
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