Kayaking to work through the city center: what Chinese crowding leads to (6 photos)

Every day, 10 million passengers use the Shanghai metro. By the way, only 9.5 million use the Moscow metro. So in Shanghai, the underground is even more crowded than in our capital. It is rightfully considered one of the most congested in the world, and during rush hour it is not just crowded, it is very crowded.





(but ​​they didn’t think of installing human compactors, like in Japan – too many stations, you’ll go broke).

So people come up with different ways to get to work in the morning, bypassing the metro. Many people switch to electric bicycles and are ready to ride for an hour until the battery dies, just not in a cramped space. But when such bicycles began to be mass-produced, two things happened:



A sad cemetery of bicycles, my heart bleeds

Huge dumps of almost new mechanical bicycles, which the Chinese immediately threw out for the sake of a fashionable novelty.

Traffic jams of electric bicycles on dedicated lanes. And again stand, and again traffic jams, only this time it might even rain.

And here is a new desperate trend for tired Shanghainese... KAYAKING.





An army of rental bikes in the parking lot

Those who have a river between their home and work are just lucky, because they can swim to work in their own kayak.

The coolest thing is that they haven't introduced a fee for parking a boat in China yet, so storing it is completely free, you just leave it under the bridge. Moreover, in busy parts of the city you can almost see fights every day for a good parking space. People are tense because of the constant crowd, and people on kayaks can be immediately picked out from this crowd. They are kind of above the fray.



It looks pretty cozy, and a bottle to go

And also did some sports

Since kayaking is also a good active sport (on average, you need to swim from 6 to 12 kilometers to work), it is also perceived as a free gym.



And no traffic, especially in the morning. The administration turns a blind eye to this until the first drowning person

Do you spend an hour on the road or an hour on sports? Shanghai residents are increasingly looking to buy a kayak.

Unfortunately, this is only available to a small percentage of morning traffic participants: after all, your home and work must be along the river and not go too far into the center of the district, otherwise you will have to transfer to work again.

But Shanghai has already received a small relief for traffic. What will people come up with next out of desperation? Fly on personal jetpacks? Then all of China will buy them in a single impulse and the air will be thick with Chinese!