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| Yang Yukun, 80, from the Dongcheng district of Beijing |
"The green lights don't last long enough for older people. My husband is 88, and so I always pay extra attention to the traffic when we go shopping at the supermarket on the other side of the road from our community.
It's a four-lane road and not very wide, but we still need to wait for the light to change to green so we don't waste a single second crossing the road. In the morning and evening, one traffic police officer stands on duty - that's less than adequate.
Usually, we link arms; my husband looks right and I look left. We warn each other of cars coming from apparently nowhere. We are always very nervous when crossing the road. Sometimes we need to run a little to finish crossing before the light turns yellow. It's risky.
We deliberately avoid going out during the rush hours, because a huge crowd of school students floods into the road.
Cars, electric bicycles and flocks of students with their parents; I know I shouldn't complain, but living in the city as a senior citizen means being more careful on the street."
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