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2004-12-20 China-Japan-Koreas

China launches super-dooper-expressway program

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Posted by .com 2004-12-20 12:47:32 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Good! The more time, money and people China devotes to road building, the less they will have to get in trouble with. Too, better roads lead to more trade, which leads to more jobs, which will keep the excess of young men too busy to realize they'll never have wives.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-20 2:24:50 AM|| 2004-12-20 2:24:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder how many bicycle lanes there'll be...

Posted by .com 2004-12-20 5:15:25 AM|| 2004-12-20 5:15:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Large expressways are also a effective ways to move military forces. Eisenhower started the Interstate Defense Highway program after he saw how good the German autobans were.

Posted by Steve 2004-12-20 8:22:15 AM|| 2004-12-20 8:22:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Interestingly enough, many of these are toll roads. This is not your father's Communist Party.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-12-20 11:07:28 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-12-20 11:07:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Eisenhower started the Interstate Defense Highway program after he saw how good the German autobans were.

Ike had the picture way before he saw Germany. He led an Army mechanized unit in the first cross continent trip. Makes for a hell of a story.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-20 11:10:18 AM|| 2004-12-20 11:10:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 1. What's the speed limit?
2. What's the price of Premium unleaded?
3. Do any of them run along the Great Wall?

Road Trip!

Posted by jackal 2004-12-20 8:26:52 PM|| [http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2004-12-20 8:26:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I bet they don't even know what a "Chinese Fire Drill" is, heh.

Shotgun!

Posted by .com 2004-12-20 8:31:02 PM|| 2004-12-20 8:31:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 hybrids, nahhhh good old choking pollution, after all, they're exempt from Kyoto

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-20 9:29:57 PM|| 2004-12-20 9:29:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Eisenhower started the Interstate Defense Highway program after he saw how good the German autobans were.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike was opened in October 1940 after two years of construction including the excavation of 7 tunnels totalling approximately 7 miles in length. Nothing gets built that fast today.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-20 9:36:39 PM|| 2004-12-20 9:36:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 nobody was an "activist" then, they were "gadflys" and "the asshole down the street"

Posted by Frank G 2004-12-20 9:43:17 PM|| 2004-12-20 9:43:17 PM|| Front Page Top

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