It has been more than 2 years since government officials decreed they were going to tear down one side of Maoming Lu to build a park. Maoming Lu was scheduled to be demolished renovated way back in July 2005. We are still waiting. The first move against Maoming was in August of 2000 when the police came in to “crack down”. Since then Maoming has been the recipient of countless threats, but has managed to still survive them all.

The word on the street is that they want to turn it into a park, or perhaps even another flower street! I think the bottom line, is that they want to just make it quiet.

Anyhow, this is the kind of ambivalence I have come to expect from these officials with their grand declarations. Wasn’t there supposed to be some sort of curfew going into effect? Close the bars at 2pm? Or is that only in Beijing, and only in the KTVs?