{"id":5987,"date":"2013-07-02T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=5987"},"modified":"2013-07-02T15:33:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:33:22","slug":"chengdus-second-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/chengdus-second-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Chengdu&#8217;s Second Ring Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chengdu is a city surrounded concentric circles with Tianfu Square at the center. Currently there are three ring roads encircling Chengdu and major construction has just completed on the second, adding a gigantic second layer to the highway which encircles the city. One side effect of all this development is, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinaurbandevelopment.com\/?cat=61\" target=\"_blank\">many people<\/a> have been saying, that traffic threatens the Chengdu way of life. It&#8217;s hard to be laid back and stuck in traffic at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>But now that it&#8217;s done, it doesn&#8217;t feel like such a bad thing. Traffic and pollution have greatly improved and this is now the fastest way to traverse the city. Fingers crossed that Chengdu doesn&#8217;t grow to demand seven ring roads like Beijing has.<\/p>\n<p>It still looks and feels strange to me though, like walking down into the Chengdu subway for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5988\" alt=\"Chengdu 2nd Ring Road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr2-900.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr2-900-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr2-900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5991\" alt=\"Chengdu 2nd Ring Road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr5-900.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr5-900-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr5-900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5990\" alt=\"Chengdu 2nd Ring Road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr6-900.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr6-900-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/2rr6-900.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chengdu is a city surrounded concentric circles with Tianfu Square [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,20],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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