Tianjin's traffic restriction plan

 

Tianjin Municipality announced on Dec. 15 that it will restrict traffic and issue new car license plates via a bidding and lottery system. The city will impose quotas on new license plates starting on Dec. 16, requiring buyers to join a lottery or bid in auctions to win a plate.

Tianjin will also follow Beijing's step in adopting a similar traffic restriction scheme, which blocks cars from streets depending on the last digit of their plates, with two numbers banned each workday. The ban, which will take effect on March 1 next year, is expected to take one fifth of the city's private cars off the road on workdays.

Moreover, the city will ban vehicles with non-local plates from driving into the city's outer ring road during morning and evening rush hours on workdays.