(BEIJING, July 29) -- In the week since Olympic transport service safeguards, including "odd-even" traffic restrictions and Olympic-designated traffic lanes, went into effect on July 20, calls to 1-2-2 reporting traffic jams have declined by 78.8 percent and traffic accidents by 47.1 percent, according to Wang Li, vice director of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau.

Rush-hour traffic on the city's seven main thoroughfares, including Chang'an Avenue and the Second, Third and Fourth Ring Roads, is down by 24.7 percent, and fender bender reports are down by half.

Widespread cooperation demonstrates the public's wholehearted efforts to ensure a successful Olympics, Wang said at a press conference on Tuesday. The Traffic Management Bureau will do its best to improve the quality of transport services and to satisfy the needs of the international community, athletes and the local public during the Games, she added.