Yoo Hoo Wuhan Part 2

A Linguistic Challenge?

Above is the rail map of Wuhan!

We shall refer to it later in this blog when we go for a bus ride.

Buses - An Introduction

But first, a guide to bus travel in the city in English (nearly) but helpfully with French subtitles.

Did you spot the ticket price? More on that topic to follow next week.

There is no commentary on this next video but best watch it first, looking out for the bridge over the Yangtze river.

The bus route runs between two stations that carry the names of two of the three communities that were merged to form the city of Wuhan; that's  Wuchang station on the north of the river ...

... and Hangkou on the south.

fbb guesses that those are the two black station sausage shaped blobs on the rail map above. They are joined by a blue line which represents a main line train service.

The Big Bridge

The bridge carries road and rail traffic as seen here from above the Yellow Crane Tower.

Next we have a picture of the bridge from below ...

... clearly showing the overhead masts for the electric trains. The mini pagodas at both ends of the bridge are a reminder that bustling modern Wuhan has a deep  and sometimes unhappy historic background.

The Wuhan Yangtze Great Bridge (simplified Chinese: 武汉长江大桥; traditional Chinese: 武漢長江大橋; pinyin: Wǔhàn Chángjiāng Dàqiáo), is a double-deck road and rail bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhan, in Central China. At its completion in 1957, the bridge was the easternmost crossing of the Yangtze, and was often referred to as the "First Bridge of the Yangtze".

Here it is under construction ...

... and, atmospherically, at sunset!

Until the bridge was opened, through railway carriages crossed the Yangtse on a train ferry. Sadly, fbb could only find pictures of a modern Chinese train ferry ...

... but you will get the idea.

Tomorrow, we talk some more about bus fares!

In the meantime, yesterday fbb wrote briefly about the tendency if the Yangtze river to flood.

Best keep your wellies handy!

Wuhan blogs continue on Monday.

 Next Variety blog : Saturday 16th May