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All of Beijing's expressways, except for the Jingha Expressway, are interlinked with the 5th Ring Road. Being close to the Olympic venues for the games of summer 2008, it earns itself a nickname -- "Olympic Avenue".
Portions of the expressway have a maximum speed limit of 90 km/h, with the remainder imposing a speed limit of 100 km/h. There is a universal minimum speed limit of 50 km/h.
Six lanes (three up, three down) form the expressway ring road.
The route was originally called the "1st Expressway Ring Road", as it would take the form of an expressway, and therefore become the city's first expressway ring road. However, given the fact that the 2nd Ring Road, 3rd Ring Road and 4th Ring Road were in existence, re-ordering it as a ring road with a number value of 1, especially as it was outside the 4th Ring Road, looked odd. Therefore, it was renamed the 5th Ring Road, after some debate.
Work began soon and the first portion of the ring road opened in 2001, linking the Badaling Expressway with the Airport Expressway. Further stretches of the road were soon opened. By mid- 2003, half of the ring road was open, from the western end connecting the West Chang'an AvenueChang'an Avenue is a major through route in Beijing, China. Strictly speaking, it only encompasses West Chang'an Avenue and East Chang'an Avenue . Less strictly speaking, it encompasses the stretch from Fuxingmen on the Western 2nd Ring Road through to Ji to the interchange in the southeast with the Jingjintang ExpresswayOpened in September of 1993, the Jingjintang expressway also known simply as the Jingtang expressway, links Beijing via central Tianjin to the Tanggu District in eastern Tianjin. 143 kilometres in length, it crosses the jurisidictions of Beijing and Tianj.
The entire expressway was completed on November 1, 2003, with the intersections with Jingshi ExpresswayThe Jingshi Expressway (, Hanyu Pinyin: Jingshi Gosu Gonglu; or Jingshi Freeway, as it was formerly known) is an expressway in China which links Beijing to the Shijiazhuang. 270 km in length. Its road numbering is G030 . It forms part of the Jingzhu Expre and Jingkai ExpresswayThe Jingkai Expressway (, Hanyu Pinyin: Jingki Gosu Gonglu) is an expressway in China which links Beijing to Kaifeng. At present, it is approximately 40 km in length in the Beijing section. Opened just after the turn of the century, the relatively new exp complete. Also completed on the same day was Xiaoyue TunnelThe Xiaoyue Tunnel is an expressway tunnel in Beijing, China, and forms part of the Western 5th Ring Road. The tunnel is relatively short. It is notable for being the only tunnel on the 5th Ring Road and so far, the only tunnel on any of the five ring roa -- noticeable for being the only tunnelSwitzerland subway. canal tunnel. A tunnel is an underground passage. When designed for use by traffic, it may be called an underpass . It may be for pedestrians and/or cyclists, for general road traffic, for motor vehicles only, for rail traffic, or for on any of the 5 Ring Roads of Beijing3rd Ring Road (August 2004 image) Beijing is one of the very few cities to possess multiple ring roads (or beltways). Among the rarest seen anywhere in a major city in the world is Beijing's 2nd Ring Road, which is extremely central to Tian'anmen, the cen.
The 5th Ring Road is home to Shifeng BridgeShifeng Bridge ( Simplified Chinese: 石丰桥, Traditional Chinese: 石豐橋, Hanyu Pinyin: Shifeng Qiao) is a bridge on Beijing's western 5th Ring Road. It is near Wanping, near the Marco Polo Bridge. 4 kilometres in lengt. This bridge was built and actually had to be rotated after it was built to link the two ends of the southwestern 5th Ring Road together. Underneath the bridge ran several important rail lines that could not be interrupted while the bridge was being built, which made it impossible for the Shifeng Bridge to be built like a normal bridge. It was instead constructed in parts extending the expressway as it went along. The completion of this colossal work accelerated the completion of the entire ring road.
At night, Shifeng Bridge looks spectacular. It apparently is a trademark bridge of the expressway ring road.