Daily Archives: January 22, 2009

Ready, set, gonglu!

Going further afield again, this time to China. It's no secret that China is the world's hottest economy right now. The Chinese are flexing that muscle in the same way that America did in the 1950s - they're building massive amounts of freeway (known as gonglu in Chinese). By the end of the next decade, China will have more freeway miles than the United States and drivers will be able [...]

By |2018-01-17T14:43:13-05:00January 22nd, 2009|China, Interstate Highways|Comments Off on Ready, set, gonglu!
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Ring around the posey

American cities may be attempting to be more European, what with pedestrianization and density being buzzwords in urban planning communities, but Europe is emulating the US in one way: ring roads. While some roads like London’s M25 or Paris’ Peripherique are famous – many former Warsaw Pact countries are racing to update their infrastructure to adapt to their new status in the European Union, and it seems that the first [...]

By |2018-01-17T14:45:59-05:00January 22nd, 2009|Europe|1 Comment
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