Beijing is the opposite: red lights are merely advisory for drivers. Cars just cross the pedestrian crossings. That has trained pedestrians to be very attentive.

It's pretty great, and the bike lanes just keep getting better.

Yes. It's gotten so good that I feel the main impediment to cycling has become air quality rather than cars.

Those factors seem to be related, don't they? b^)

At most tangentially.

I am glad they added a new "t-charge" (similar to the older congestion charge) to specifically target cars with worse emissions recently.