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Chinese expressways and highways
CNGL-Leudimin:
--- Quote from: SkyPesos on May 02, 2021, 12:00:31 AM ---In China's system, the endpoints are set already in name too (in addition to the mileposts), and there's no changing it. For example, G15 is called the Shenyang-Haikou (Shenhai) Expressway because those are the cities the highway ends at. The portmanteau name is written on reassurance markers too, which means an extended highway would result in the replacement of many reassurance markers.
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When the 2013 plan was issued, I wondered why they had given new numbers to obvious extensions of previously planned expressways (G1216 instead of G12, G2515 instead of G2511, G4012 instead of G4011) . However, they renamed G85 from Chongqing-Kunming to Yinchuan-Kunming expressway instead of giving a new number to the newly added Yinchuan-Chongqing section. I wonder if they have finished changing signs South of Yu (Chongqing, perhaps the most Chinese-sounding city xD).
--- Quote from: SkyPesos on May 02, 2021, 12:00:31 AM ---When a new parallel highway was contructed between Shenyang and Harbin to the southeast of G1, it was numbered as G1212 and G1211 even though a G15 extension probably would've been better if the endpoints are not set in stone.
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That had been planned that way from the 2005 plan. G1211 is the Jilinshi (or Jilin City, adding the "shi" so as to tell it apart from the same-named province)-Heihe expressway (running beyond Harbin all the way to the Russian border) and G1212 is the Shenyang-Jilinshi expressway. Also note than in both cases kmposts run the "wrong" way, starting from the South.
--- Quote from: SkyPesos on May 02, 2021, 12:00:31 AM ---And then there are set endpoints that I doubt the highway would reach in the next decade or two. Examples are Taipei for G3 and Lhasa for G6.
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AFAIK Nagqu-Lhasa is at least U/C, but I don't think they would fill the gap between Golmud and Nagqu anytime soon. And I don't think G3 will ever reach Taibei, due to both technical and political issues.
kphoger:
--- Quote from: Chris on May 02, 2021, 04:36:17 PM ---Cardinal directions on signage is mostly an American thing, hardly any other country except perhaps Canada consistently uses cardinal directions on their signage.
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Cardinal directions are part of the Mexican SCT manual, but they're hardly ever used in real life.
SkyPesos:
From a browse on Baidu Maps, seems like some of the newer BGS installations have pinyin for control cities now.
TheGrassGuy:
--- Quote from: SkyPesos on May 05, 2021, 12:44:59 AM ---From a browse on Baidu Maps, seems like some of the newer BGS installations have pinyin for control cities now.
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It obviously depends on the location, as well: signs in rich provinces like Jiangsu and Guangdong are more likely to have English translations than signs in poor provinces like Anhui and Fujian.
andrepoiy:
Fujian is a poor province?
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