I live next to a traffic jam

After three minutes trying to explain my destination to the taxi driver I finally decide to point the directions to him. The first explanation I tried was in a very pooly pronounced chinese. That got me nowhere. My second try was using the english name. Not much better, but he then accpeted to put aside his pride and accept to be indicated the directions. Good, so we're off to the constant traffic jam. At every hour of the day it takes 20 minutes to cross a 100 meter road junction. Buses, taxis, bicycles, motobikes, cars, vans, basically anything with more than 2 wheels is trying desperatly to gain a meter here or a meter there amongst the 4 rows of vehicules on 2 lanes. In the taxi, I am still wondering why the police officer sitting under a parasol is just plaisantly watching all this with a smile. Does it come to mind to nobody in China that if you just show a bit more patience and wait your turn, things would actually go much smoother ? It doesn't seem so. Traffic is terrible, it's actually the only thing that really gets to me. Overtaking on the left, on the right, in the middle, and if there isn't enough space to get through, they make space. Traffic lights ? Yes they do exist, but you don't see many people respecting them. Bikes just go straight through, sometimes getting hit by cars and sent 10 meters away to die (just imagine then what it is like when a mother is riding the bike with her 3 kids on the back ... it is seen). In Guangzhou alone, every year over 6000 people die on the road to what I've been told. That is basically the same amount than for the total population of France (60 million people). As for those on foot well, if you haven't enough money for a car, you really shouldn't be on the road (how do I cross ?) and so you can't say much to the car owner. Owning a car in China is still something new and often an object of great pride. Many roads are still of very bad quality, badly planned for taffic flow, and people have little respect for any kind of rules. But today only 9 households out of 100 have a car but those numbers are growing fast so just imagine the situation when that number doubles.