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Jiading 嘉定 is a district of Shanghai, but far from the downtown Shanghai. I haven't been there before I attended the wedding ceremony for my friend.
The express way from Shanghai Downtown to Jiading is the first express way in China. It was completed in 1988. I heard about the Shanghai - Jiading Express way in 1994, and in my mind, Jiading must be extremely far away, that people need to connect the two places with an expressway.
Yesterday, we drove there - 13 km from A20 to Jiading, or 15 km in total.
At night, we left Jiading at 11:00 PM, and at 11:40 PM, we are already on my bed in my home.
The Shanghai - Jiading Expressway (named A12) connects with A20, and then directly merge into the newly built Middle-Ring Road, then we went east and turned into the South-North Elevated Road, then Nanpu Bridge via Inner-Ring Road.
The 40 minutes driving experience was amazing! It is just like from San Jose to San Francisco - so many branches, via-duct, elevated road, and without a single red light. It is especially good to drive at night, when there was almost no traffic on the road.
Posted by Jian Shuo Wang at March 20, 2007 12:25 AM
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When i was a student, i used to take buses from Jiading to Shanghai downtown every week. it was a luxury treat to take the buses going through freeway, since it's about 2RMB per ticket ( it went up to 10RMB last time i took the bus). the normal ticket price for local way only bus would be about 50cents ( or free if it's the bus provided by the school).
it's pretty amazing that i now drives average 80 miles a day back and forth from home to work, and it average takes me 3 hours on the road every day. i always tell my wife that if i'm asked to work in Jiading and live in Shanghai downtown now, I will be pleased by the time i can save. but when i was a student, the trip from Jiading to downtown seems to be endless, even through the freeway :-)
Posted by: rangew on March 20, 2007 9:23 AMAnd it still charges! The first expressway in China is still not a freeway. I doubt whether they have gotten all the funding back yet.
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on March 20, 2007 11:23 AMDriving on the expressway is amazing, but do you think it's kind of dangerous?
Posted by: Romeo on March 20, 2007 11:29 AMYou should drive on the German Autobahn. Many sections of the Autobahn has no speed limit and the average speed is 150 km/hr. Many people drive at more than 200 km/hr.
http://www.autobahnatlas-online.de/
Posted by: Давид on March 20, 2007 3:46 PMWell. I don't like to drive too fast. My guideline is always, drive under the speed limit.
There are some places with rediculous speed limit though, like the Wan Ping Road - one lane at exit is marked as <30 KM/h, while lanes besides it is <80 KM/h. It will be too dangerous to drive at the specified speed limit.
Yes, especially the Middle Ring road is Really Great !
Just keep 80 km/h.
There are plenty of speed cameras.
Advice : Plot them into your car GPS.
Давид - "David" - 200++ is possible in China too !
Just find the right places :-)
Why do you think people buy Ferrari's here ?
Not for fun driving in Shanghai City.
I know some very good expressways in China...
But expect to find boxes, rocks, crossing farmers and perhaps some crashed cars on the road.
Can be an exiting experience :-(
Hi, i drive everyday from downtown Xu Hui to Jiading. it can take up to an full hour due heavy traffic within the city ring. There's a new road that connects from A8 (pass ikea then after Luna park take a right, then keep going till exit A8), keep going to exit A5, then you pass the F1 track (on the left) and straight into Jiading, probably 5 to 10 Km longer but nearly any traffic on A5. Cost you an extra 5yuan but should get you within 40 min into Jiading Town during rush hours. :)
Posted by: Guido on March 20, 2007 10:23 PMIt seems to be a good tip to visit Jiading with the bonus pack - F1 circuit. Thanks.
Posted by: Jian Shuo Wang (external link) on March 20, 2007 10:33 PMMy office was in Jiading before and I thought it was quite far. One reason why I thought it was far was because my company had a bus that picked up all the staff near People's Square at 8am in the morning! I lived in JingAn district so it was ridiculous for me to wake up to commute for 1 hour just to get to work. If I missed the bus, I would have to pay a 80rmb cab ride to get there, which is more than half way to the Pudong airport! I quit that job after a year because of the commute issue and not the job itself.
WJS may think it is close because he has his own car. ;-)
Posted by: Shockr on March 21, 2007 2:11 AMha,ha ,i live in JinShan district. it is spent 45 minutes from MeiLong. i hope it will build subway.
Posted by: anonymous on March 25, 2007 5:09 PMHi I like to some information how can get shanghai internation circunt, because next year I will visit shanghai, I hope you can give me direction.
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