Shanghai to Demolish Ramp to the Bund

As my buddy Raj put it, this is the coolest entryway to a city's main drag anywhere in the world.  And Wednesday, Shanghai city officials announced the portion of the Yan'an Elevated Road that empties onto Shanghai's most famous avenue, the Bund, will be demolished as part of a project that will reroute Bund traffic underground.  I only hope they're not using Boston's model for an underground road system.  Anyone that has ever winded around this bend to discover the flashy Pudong skyline on the right and the classy row of old European buildings on the left knows what a big loss this is.  Shanghai, and China in general, is so consumed with making everything as grand and efficient as possible that it is losing sight of what is beautiful about this city.  It's these roads and the old Chinese neighborhoods being razed that give the city its flavor.  Modernizing a city is one thing, but destroying picturesque views for the sake of traffic flow is quite another.

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