Side story. In Beijing, government employees are visiting bus stops trying to teach the citizens to line up so that next year during the olympics you won't have to turn getting on the bus into roller derby.
This is probably an image thing. Foreigners are probably going to cab it, mostly. A 20-minute cab ride goes for about $2. The big advantage of a cab is that you don't have to share it with pickpockets and petty thieves.