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Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years

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Re: Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years

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Nothing remotely like Pudong or Puxi in Shanghai. I’m very fortunate to live within walking distance of two small parks in Changning and that is way better than most of Puxi. If you want to see a good example of urban planning look at Singapore. Everything appears to be a park, road, tree or building and there’s plenty of the first two. Whatever a perfect city looks like it does not look like Pudong or any of the res…

>and everything set up for cars. I've lived in Shanghai and currently live in Singapore, and Singapore seems waay more car-centric, more like an American city than anything I've seen in China. Really wide roads almost everywhere, mandatory car parking in office buildings, scarce crossings, some incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly intersections. As an example, there are + intersections where only 3/4 of the possible cros…

I bow to your greater experience of Singapore but I struggle to see how anyone could feel safer as a pedestrian in Shanghai than Singapore. It’s not as bad as Beijing but the median (car) driver here is just dangerous and that’s without taking account of the scooter drivers going wrong way or running red lights or driving on the foot path.

Most of Shanghai has really wide, four lane roads or wider in the new built areas that are most of the city like Pudong or Qingpu. The rest sounds worse in Singapore but the only parts of Shanghai with narrow streets are in old Puxi.

Re: Recommendations from the first meeting of China’s urban policy unit in 38 years

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>and everything set up for cars. I've lived in Shanghai and currently live in Singapore, and Singapore seems waay more car-centric, more like an American city than anything I've seen in China. Really wide roads almost everywhere, mandatory car parking in office buildings, scarce crossings, some incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly intersections. As an example, there are + intersections where only 3/4 of the possible cros…

I bow to your greater experience of Singapore but I struggle to see how anyone could feel safer as a pedestrian in Shanghai than Singapore. It’s not as bad as Beijing but the median (car) driver here is just dangerous and that’s without taking account of the scooter drivers going wrong way or running red lights or driving on the foot path. Most of Shanghai has really wide, four lane roads or wider in the new built ar…

Shanghai traffic is quite congested, which slows it down considerably compared to Singapore. Drivers (at least to me) also seem more cautious in Shanghai, maybe because of the draconian penalties for hitting someone. 蓝村路 is a concrete example of a road that feels safer to cross due to traffic moving slowly, if you've ever been there. 浦电路 is another one.
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