Today I flagged a cab to head over to the new US Embassy (a building with all the charm of a medium-security prison for Midwestern tax cheats glorious symbol of American freedom, F–k yeah!) and my driver was perplexed even though I had carefully explained in Chinese how to get there. Now this is hardly unusual as I have long lamented in this space, but what was remarkable was this particular driver had with him…a map! In fact, he had a whole book of maps. This was a huge step up from the driver earlier this week who took three tries to find the Third Ring Road…
In the end, we didn’t actually need the map (I knew the way) but I was impressed at this level of preparedness on the part of a taxi professional.
Progress? Perhaps.