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INFRAESTRUCTURE - CHINA - Yangtze Highway
One widely overlooked impact of the Three Gorges dam is a new route to central China.
USA -Newsweek International,by Craig Simons -July Aug 2005: -- The Three Gorges dam wasn't built to create a river highway, and indeed none of the controversy and little of the debate that surrounded planning for the world's largest dam had anything to do with transportation... Many multinationals are now eyeing the Yangtze as a possible solution to the logistical nightmares of shipping inside China. Even though the length of China's highway network has doubled since 1980, it remains sparse, according to World Bank transportation specialist Michel Bellier. The problem is most acute in western China, where trucks must share local roads with bicycles and pigs, and must often pay high tolls to corrupt officials, says Christopher Torrens, director of the Shanghai office of the consulting firm Access Asia. Rail lines are worse: during the first half of last year they could meet only 35 percent of all freight requests, and companies complain that goods often arrive late or damaged...
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