Highway Feature of the Week — 4th Ring Road @ National Stadium, Beijing China

(This is one of a weekly series of posts entitled “Highway Feature of the Week”. The complete collection of Highway Features of the Week is available on a single page, or via a special RSS feed.)

It’s Beijing’s week to get a highway feature highlighted.  So, in honor of the Summer Olympics….

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The Fourth Ring Road is a frequently congested loop about 8 kilometers outside the core of the city of Beijing.  This particular location is where the expressway passes just south of the new National Stadium, the “birds nest” that will be the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Games.