I am currently in Beijing for one more day. While there are some amazing sites to see here, I've personally found the transportation service/industry to be a joke.
We arrived and were swarmed with guys directly outside of customs trying to get us in the car to transport us. We exited the airport, and got in the official taxi line. There still must have been 5-6 guys all trying to get our business. They tried telling us we'd have to split up as they couldn't get our luggage in one car. There are only 2 of us, one bag each. I made it fit and off we went. We are staying at the St. Regis which is close to the Square. We informed the driver, as well as provided the address and name of the hotel. He had no clue where he was going. I happened to see the hotel from one of the main roads and starting yelling to get him to turn. He kept wanting to take us to the square.

The second day we were here, we went to dinner a Green T House, great place, but again a nightmare to get there. The hotel wrote down in Chinese the address and again the drive had no clue where he was going and wanted to drop us off on the street. The place was 15 minutes from our hotel max.

The next day we rented a car to tour the Great Wall. Mixed decision, while the driver and guide (arranged by hotel) certainly knew where the wall was and spoke English, we were taken to the state owned jade factories and malls for shopping. I wasn't happy about any of that, my agenda was to see the wall, not some gosh awful factor where jade is made.

The same night, Christmas Eve, we wanted to grad some Indian food. Received recommendation from the hotel and again directions/address written down in Chinese. The bellman and cab driver communicated back and forth and it was apparent the driver had no idea where he was going. After 40 minutes of wandering the city in terrible traffic, we finally got the taxi driver to bring us back to the hotel.

I share this because this city's bigger issue is not having to have the address written in Chinese, it's the fact their cab drivers have no idea where anything is located.
Hosting the Olympics here at this point is going to be a complete joke and the world with laugh!