China Literally Shaves Down Mountains to Make Room for Expressway

Why bother drilling tunnels when you can simply shave down mountains? That was apparently the philosophy behind the new Lu’an Expressway in China’s mountainous Guizhou Province. We have already written about the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the soon-to-be-inaugurated world’s highest bridge (625 meters or 2,051 feet above the Beipan River Valley), but the expressway running […]