China Expressways, Highways: News & Discussions

[ahojunk]

Kind reminder to stay on topic.

Any further off topic posts will be deleted and will be given an infringement notice.

I suggest that you create a thread in South Asian forum to continue your discussion on the railways in Sri Lanka.

 

[grey boy 2]

A city without traffic lights
Tekes county in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region
(CRIenglish.com) Updated: 2016-09-21 11:33

A bird's eye view of Tekes county in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua]

A small county in remote Ili prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, attracted world attention by its road design based on the Eight Diagrams and lack of any traffic lights.

The Eight Diagrams, or Bagua, are eight trigrams used in Taoist cosmology, which is a religious, philosophical and ritual tradition of Chinese origin emphasizing living in harmony. Bagua represents the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts.

The local government of Tekes county canceled all traffic lights in 1996 since the county never had traffic jams. It is the only county in China that to forgo traffic lights.

The county has four ring roads connecting 64 streets, with eight main routes that radiate out from the center. Each street has different-colored streetlights.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-09/21/content_26851950_8.htm

 

[Nan Yang]

It's a Ba Gua design.

 

[Place Of Space]

It's a Ba Gua design.

you said it. It is a Taoism concept.

Here is a Bagua farmland in Hangzhou.

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[AndrewJin]

Driving in Xiamen City's sea tunnel.....
8695m (4200m under sea)

I think this is the biggest project ever in Guangdong Province....

 

[TaiShang]

China home to over half of the world's longest bridges
September 28, 2016
People's Daily



Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (Photo/Xinhua)

The deck of China’s 55km-long Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao bridge was fully joined up on Sept. 27, officially making it the longest cross-sea bridge in the world.

Just 20 years ago this would have been unthinkable as China was still trying to build a bridge with a span of 400 meters. Today bridges over 1km in length are nothing unusual in the country. China is home to over half of the world’s longest span suspension bridges, cable-stayed bridges, steel arch bridges, and cross-sea bridges.



Yaxi Expressway (Photo/Xinhua)



Pingtan cross-strait highway-railway bridge, currently under construction (Photo/Xinhua)

Hutong Yangtze River Bridge, currently under construction (Photo/Xinhua)

 

[艹艹艹]

China completes 34-mile record-breaking bridge to Hong Kong

Chinese builders celebrated the end of major construction work on the world’s longest cross-sea bridge, a project designed to give an economic boost to one of the country’s richest regions.
The 34-mile bridge spans the Pearl River estuary to connect the southern coastal cities of Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau.

The Y-shaped bridge starts from Lantau Island in Hong Kong with branches to Zhuhai and Macau. After the bridge opens, passengers will be able to drive through two special administrative regions and the Mainland in less than half-an-hour.

According to information released by the construction companies and cited by Chinese Television CCTV, over 400,000 tons of steel was used to build this structure; the equivalent of about 60 Eiffel Towers.

 

[AndrewJin]

China completes 34-mile record-breaking bridge to Hong Kong

Chinese builders celebrated the end of major construction work on the world’s longest cross-sea bridge, a project designed to give an economic boost to one of the country’s richest regions.
The 34-mile bridge spans the Pearl River estuary to connect the southern coastal cities of Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macau.

The Y-shaped bridge starts from Lantau Island in Hong Kong with branches to Zhuhai and Macau. After the bridge opens, passengers will be able to drive through two special administrative regions and the Mainland in less than half-an-hour.

According to information released by the construction companies and cited by Chinese Television CCTV, over 400,000 tons of steel was used to build this structure; the equivalent of about 60 Eiffel Towers.

One of the many presents to National Day!

 

[JSCh]

The great leap upward: China's Pearl River Delta, then and now
The Pearl River Delta has witnessed the most rapid urban expansion in human history – a predominantly agricultural region transformed into the world’s largest continuous city. By revisiting the sites of rare archive images of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Macau from the 1940s through 1990s, our photographers have documented this staggering change


Link ->

The great leap upward: China's Pearl River Delta, then and now | Cities | The Guardian​

 

[AndrewJin]

The great leap upward: China's Pearl River Delta, then and now
The Pearl River Delta has witnessed the most rapid urban expansion in human history – a predominantly agricultural region transformed into the world’s largest continuous city. By revisiting the sites of rare archive images of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Macau from the 1940s through 1990s, our photographers have documented this staggering change


Link ->

The great leap upward: China's Pearl River Delta, then and now | Cities | The Guardian​

Impressive!

 

[AndrewJin]

Lianghekou Dam

Lianghekou dam,the tallest concrete-face rock-fill dam in the world with a height of 295m, will be completed in 2021.

 

[grey boy 2]

World's longest sightseeing escalator awaits you in Central China
(Chinadaily.com.cn) 14:31, October 10, 2016

The sightseeing escalator at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Cnhubei.com/Hu Chengyong]

A 688-meter-long sightseeing escalator made its debut during the past week-long National Day holiday, contributing to tourists' visits at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province.

"The escalator is the world's longest sightseeing one, costing each visitor 20 yuan ($2.98)", said an insider, who went on saying that visitors can enjoy the beautiful sights by taking less time and effort thanks to the escalator.

Using a steel concrete structure and a wooden structure, the escalator was built along the mountain in a "∑" shape at Qixingzhai scenic spot, a must-see at Enshi Grand Canyon.

"The whole engineering plan focused on ecological protection, which can be seen from the wooden structure and grey tile at the top of the escalator", said Xiong Yan, who is in charge of the project and works at Central-South Architectural Design Institute.

Xiong said that many vine plants were planted along the escalator to integrate with the surrounding landscape.

It's reported that the escalator can carry 7,300 visitors per hour in theory and is estimated to carry 600,000 visitors altogether in one year.

A bird's eye view of the 688-meter-long escalator at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Cnhubei.com/Hu Chengyong]

The grey tile top of the escalator at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Photo from Weibo account of Hubei Daily]

A closer look at the escalator in Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Photo from Weibo account of Hubei Daily]
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-10/10/content_27011484_4.htm

 

[AndrewJin]

Driving on the grassland expressway in Inner Mongolia!

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[AndrewJin]

World's longest sightseeing escalator awaits you in Central China
(Chinadaily.com.cn) 14:31, October 10, 2016

The sightseeing escalator at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Cnhubei.com/Hu Chengyong]

A 688-meter-long sightseeing escalator made its debut during the past week-long National Day holiday, contributing to tourists' visits at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province.

"The escalator is the world's longest sightseeing one, costing each visitor 20 yuan ($2.98)", said an insider, who went on saying that visitors can enjoy the beautiful sights by taking less time and effort thanks to the escalator.

Using a steel concrete structure and a wooden structure, the escalator was built along the mountain in a "∑" shape at Qixingzhai scenic spot, a must-see at Enshi Grand Canyon.

"The whole engineering plan focused on ecological protection, which can be seen from the wooden structure and grey tile at the top of the escalator", said Xiong Yan, who is in charge of the project and works at Central-South Architectural Design Institute.

Xiong said that many vine plants were planted along the escalator to integrate with the surrounding landscape.

It's reported that the escalator can carry 7,300 visitors per hour in theory and is estimated to carry 600,000 visitors altogether in one year.

A bird's eye view of the 688-meter-long escalator at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Cnhubei.com/Hu Chengyong]

The grey tile top of the escalator at Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Photo from Weibo account of Hubei Daily]

A closer look at the escalator in Enshi Grand Canyon in Enshi city, Central China's Hubei province. [Photo from Weibo account of Hubei Daily]
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-10/10/content_27011484_4.htm

Last time I traveled there when the escalator was being built.....
Tourists take a cable-car up to the top, then walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, at the other end, walk down or use this escalator to the shuttle bus station in the valley.