• CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It facilitates pedestrian traffic across the highway. It also looks a million times better. Probably quieter, too.

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      4 years ago

      facilitates pedestrian traffic across the highway

      What, they're supposed to crawl across those 1 foot wide dirt paths with no guard rail, suspended above a highway, to get to an area without any sidewalks or storefronts?

      If they at least put it under the other highway, it wouldn't make it any harder to cross.

      This is just a more tasteful version of Houston's highway right next to other highways.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        they’re supposed to crawl across those 1 foot wide dirt paths with no guard rail, suspended above a highway, to get to an area without any sidewalks or storefronts?

        now I kinda want to see this as a game show

        • Pezevenk [he/him]
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          edit-2
          4 years ago

          China is a pretty big country. That means it's very likely that there will be cool stuff, and also stupid stuff.

          • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah, but I'm not convinced that this is stupid. "Car bad, train good," I can hear already. China builds plenty of trains; they can have a little buried highway as a treat.

            • Pezevenk [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Perhaps the highway really has to be there and there was no better way to plan this out, in which case it definitely looks kind of neat and reduces noise pollution. However it is kind of silly that it is inaccessible to pedestrians, if you're gonna do all that work at least make it so that someone can pass from one side to the other...

              • CarlTheRedditor [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Yeah after looking at it more closely, it clearly isn't really designed for that, or if it is they haven't installed any guardrails yet. That's a baffling decision to me.