Originally Posted by
Steve_R
Thanks for that, Fred. I figured it would come to this, and it looks like it has. At any rate, I'm one step closer to being fully legal in China. Got my motorcycle drivers license back home while I was in Vancouver (Canada) this summer!
Meanwhile, for those looking to avoid the checkpoints and are still not quite legal, then there is a route that bypasses both the river road *and* the two main G318 checkpoints. The route is a little complex and is best understood with a map which I'll see if I can post here a little later. For now, will just try and describe it by text.
As you're coming out of Shanghai on the 318, you want to turn left at the road that goes to XI CEN. It is a T-intersection with a traffic light, the last light before the first checkpoint actually.
Go on that, cross underneath the express, go past the town a little bit, cross a small bridge, and turn right on the first paved farm road you see. It will go for about 5km and it zigzags a bit. Follow the express on your right, and use the small blue police boxes (nobody is ever in them) as guidelines if you get lost. The road will spit you back on the G318 at the 62.5 KM mark and you've cleared the first checkpoint.
How to clear the next? Turn left on G318 and go a tiny bit more to the 63.3 KM mark and then turn right on the next paved farm road. That will spit you across the provincial border, and will turn into a small and narrow gravel farm road. Then you go across a small bridge, zigzag to the right, under the expressway, past a large lumber yard, and the road will get paved again. You will see a SINO CANADA school on your right where I used to work at. Keep going until the traffic circle, turn left, the road becomes a wide 6-lane paved artery which goes 3km south back to the 318 near LUXU TOWN.
Turn back right on the 318 and you have now cleared all the goddamn checkpoints.
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