Please build more expressways in China

[wonderful]

Don't forget tagging me in China! This village, Hongcun, at the foot of Huangshan Mountains, a must-to-see in Central China.

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what beautiful pics!

in rural China many more expressways need building

Building expressway in Shanghai and Guangzhou is a piece of cake. Building expressway in Central China and Western China is much more difficult.
Ya-xi expressway(One section of G5 Beijing-Kunming national expressway) in Sichuan Province
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A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.
Entrances and connection of two expressways are strictly controlled. If not, safety and high-speed cannot be guaranteed. Although yesterday I spent half an hour in the expressway traffic jam, for the whole 200km journey(80% on G3 expressway) it took only 2.5 hours and 0.5 hour of waste time in congestion.
Ramps
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really glorious!

 

[AndrewJin]

what beautiful pics!

in rural China many more expressways need building


really glorious!

Old provincial highway vs national expressway, Hubei Province.

Expressway over city expressway, Guizhou, Western China

@wonderful Siduhe with a deck nearly 500 meters high, is world's highest suspension bridge

@wonderful
China is home to most of the highest expressway bridges in the world. Building them in Western China and Central China is really marvellous.
Salute to those engineers and workers!

 

[wonderful]

Old provincial highway vs national expressway, Hubei Province.
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Expressway over city expressway, Guizhou, Western China
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@wonderful Siduhe with a deck nearly 500 meters high, is world's highest suspension bridge
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@wonderful
China is home to most of the highest expressway bridges in the world. Building them in Western China and Central China is really marvellous.
Salute to those engineers and workers!

true...all the builders are brave people and they deserve high praise. btw, when will the expressway which connects Beijing and Lhasa be completed?

 

[AndrewJin]

true...all the builders are brave people and they deserve high praise. btw, when will the expressway which connects Beijing and Lhasa be completed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G6_Beijing–Lhasa_Expressway
1830km of total 3718km is in operation. Xining-Golmud is under constructing(Some sections in use). Golmud-Lhasa is planned and will start construction in the 13th 5-year plan.

Let me take you to a tour along G6 national expressway.
The very start of G6, downtown Beijing
Intersect with 3rd ring highway of Beijing

Changping District, Suburban Beijing

Great Wall, countryside of Beijing
Badaling Expressway(one section of G6), one of the most deadly expressways in China

G6 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Near a famous tourist site, Riyue Mountain, Qinghai Province

Plateau view, Qinghai Province

 

[welcomeJason]

I am now stuck on G3 national expressway, in a coach from Buddhist Jiuhua Mountain to the provincial capital of Anhui Province in Central China. Hungry, thirsty, tired after climbing mountains for two days, I may have to spend several hours here, fifty kilometers from my destination.

Building infrastructure is not merely for today's need. And now this 2000-km main artery(Beijing to Fuzhou) cannot even handle today's Friday travel rush, how to cope with ten years later?
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I wanna show this:
Do you have any idea about the four-leaved-clover-like building ?

 

[Shotgunner51]

Old provincial highway vs national expressway, Hubei Province.
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The formal nomenclature of "provincial highway" in your pic is "Unclassified Highway" (等级外公路). In China, highways are constructed based on legislation JTG-B01-2003 ("Technical Standard on Highway Construction" or "公路工程技术标准"). Except for the highest grade of control-access highways, i.e. Expressways, others are classified into 5 levels.

Expressways are Controlled-Access highway, the highest-grade type of highway with access ramps, lane dividers, etc., designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. By 2015, quantity of Expressways (高速公路) is 111,950 km​

The quantities of Highways are as below:
Level 1 Highway (一级公路) 74,300 km
Level 2 Highway (二级公路) 331,500 km
Level 3 Highway (三级公路) 401,900 km
Level 4 Highway (四级公路) 2,705,800 km
Unclassified Highway (等级外公路) 627,900 km
Total Highways 4,141,400 km

Sample of Level 1 Highway ​

For India, according "Annual report 2010-2011", Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, retrieved 2014-Octoberber-05, total road network is 48.85 lakh km (4.885 million km), consisting of national highways, expressways, state highways, major district roads, other district roads and village roads):

Expressways 1,208 km
National Highways & Expressways 92,851 km; State Highways 142,687 km; Total Highways & Expressways 235,538 km​

 

[AndrewJin]

I wanna show this:
Do you have any idea about the four-leaved-clover-like building ?

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A sort of exhibition centre?

The formal nomenclature of "provincial highway" in your pic is "Unclassified Highway" (等级外公路). In China, highways are constructed based on legislation JTG-B01-2003 ("Technical Standard on Highway Construction" or "公路工程技术标准"). Except for the highest grade of control-access highways, i.e. Expressways, others are classified into 4 levels.

Expressways are Controlled-Access highway, the highest-grade type of highway with access ramps, lane dividers, etc., designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated. By 2015, quantity of Expressways (高速公路) is 111,950 km​

Other than Expressways, Highways are classified into 5 levels. By 2012, the quantities of Highways are as below:
Level 1 Highway (一级公路) 74,300 km
Level 2 Highway (二级公路) 331,500 km
Level 3 Highway (三级公路) 401,900 km
Level 4 Highway (四级公路) 2,705,800 km
Unclassified Highway (等级外公路) 627,900 km
Total Highways 4,141,400km

Sample of Level 1 Highway ​

For India, according "Annual report 2010-2011", Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, retrieved 2014-Octoberber-05, total road network is 48.85 lakh km (4.885 million km), consisting of national highways, expressways, state highways, major district roads, other district roads and village roads):

Expressways 1,208 km
National Highways & Expressways 92,851 km; State Highways 142,687 km; Total Highways & Expressways 235,538 km​

What type is this lane? Or not included?

 

[AndrewJin]

Expressways 1,208 km
National Highways & Expressways 92,851 km; State Highways 142,687 km; Total Highways & Expressways 235,538 km

The mileage of India's highway and expressway is only equivalent to 5.5% and 1% of China respectively.
Roads are like arteries of human body. No artery, no oxygen. I think one of the priorities of Modi administration is to build more and more standard paved roads, laying the foundation of industrialisation and urbanisation.

 

[Shotgunner51]

看看四叶草那个的尺寸。。。

Let's not go off-topic, and use English whenever possible.

@waz @Oscar please mod this thread, thanks!

 

[waz]

Dear Chinese brothers, please post in English and try not to go off-topic.

Thanks guys.

 

[Sasquatch]

Guys keep the post in English this is a warning, non English posts will receive warnings and even a possible ban.

 

[welcomeJason]

Guys keep the post in English this is a warning, non English posts will receive warnings and even a possible ban.

keep on fishing