May 8, 2008
Ningbo bridge, a view to a crash
The world's longest sea-bridge from Shanghai to Ningbo opened on schedule (May 1st), cutting travel time to the port city from 4 hours to 150 minutes. However not everything is going according to plan.
Photo by NZJY
Reuters reports that the view from the 36km behemoth is so arresting that drivers have been stopping their cars to take a look, causing regular accidents and over 300 arrests. Since it will be another two years (two years?!) before the viewing platforms in the middle of the bridge are finished, slack-jawed yokels eager for a souvenir snap have taken to posing in front of traffic cameras.
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why would anyone expect anything else here? sopme people stop and back up their cars on the highways here with no regard for others... why would a 36km bridge be any different
Simple fix: fine anybody who stops 500rmb. It will drastically cut back on the amount of rubberneckers and help pay for the exorbitant construction and maintenance costs.
Yeah, 500RMB, and the rich ones consider this as an entrance fee. :)
I was riding my bike in the left lane on the bridge the other day. I tell you, this bridge is great for a leisurely cycle.
The locals are still easily amused. What a country!
WOW, freedom! Try this in any so-called democratic countries! So, listen up! don't beat up on China, it is a more advanced democratic country than anything a Westerner can comprehended!
p.s. I am still so f**ed up when passengers shout at me "Big turn here!" and "small turn there!" in Shanghai - so I kept doing 180 "big turns" with burning rubbers - I think they are impressed, right? ;)