More things in China

Cool things in Shanghai.

LED highway signs that show the traffic problems on a map. Green for moving good, yellow for slow, and red for stopped or very slow. You can quickly figure out if you need to detour.

English on most of the highway signs for those that cannot read.

Overhead walkways to cross congested streets.

Bullet train going 420 km/h.

Malls that take up a small city block because they are vertical instead of spread out over a wide space like in the US.

Decent western food for those who haven't adapted to Chinese food. I hear it's hit or miss though.

Not so cool things in Shanghai

How dirty things get when it rains. It's like it's raining mud. I'm used to the rain cleaning things up, but somehow the rain seems to make everything muddy, even the sidewalks.

Traffic, traffic, traffic. The freeway into the downtown area has not been widened since the last time I was here, but the traffic seems to have increased ten fold.

Merging six lanes into two lanes when taking the tunnel from Pu Dong. Traffic moves ... ever ... so ... slowly ...

There aren't enough parking spaces for the increasing number of cars. It's just going to get worse as people get more cars in the city.