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How many roads must a man walk down?
Liuzhou Government have been polishing up their Chinglish and proudly announcing that Liuzhou has 20,862 square metres of pedestrian walkway. Indeed, for “new roads, a 3-meter-wide pedestrian walk is compulsory”. They illustrate this by providing this idyllic shot (left) of the peace and tranquillity one is liable to find in Liuzhou’s beautiful pedestrian havens.Unfortunately, it is not only the Chinglish which is complete nonsense. This is what Liuzhou’s pedestrian areas really look like. Full of killer scooters.
Or, we can stroll through the city square while cars and buses whizz around us. And here is Liuzhou’s first pedestrian only street.
Yes, full of cars. They are diverting traffic through here while they dig up the main road to build their ludicrous underground shopping mall.
The truth is that the pedestrian is at the end of the food chain as far as the local government are concerned. After all, they never walk anywhere.
Nice to see that the motor vehicle is god in Liuzhou just as it is in every
other city in China, including my own, Shanghai. And they've only just
begun. Wait till they get to US levels of vehicle ownership!