Andy Brandl (PhotonMix)
Hangzhou Bing Jiang - Illuminated Riverside
What can I say - China is colorful at night!
Here you can see the renovated riverside in new Binjiang district, with LED animations everywhere at night.
Note the new jogging and bicycle lanes.
Great idea, as it feels really nice to run on these padded, rubberized surfaces. Two thoughts coming to mind:
a) I really hope they didn´t use the same dangerous materials as in those schools in Beijing, where students suffered from nose-bleeding and other symptoms due to toxic fumes released by (most likely untested) rubber surfaces used on their running tracks. This happened only months ago. It really would surprise me if those same materials were *not* used here...
b) Those lanes would be even more enjoyable if people going for a stroll in the evenings actually recognized them for what they are and stayed on their side of the sidewalk (see my future upload). There is ample space for that. In theory.
Still, all in all some very nice developments over here!
© Andy Brandl (2016) // PhotonMix Photography
--> Andy Brandl @ Robert Harding
--> Andy Brandl @ Getty Images
Hangzhou Bing Jiang - Illuminated Riverside
What can I say - China is colorful at night!
Here you can see the renovated riverside in new Binjiang district, with LED animations everywhere at night.
Note the new jogging and bicycle lanes.
Great idea, as it feels really nice to run on these padded, rubberized surfaces. Two thoughts coming to mind:
a) I really hope they didn´t use the same dangerous materials as in those schools in Beijing, where students suffered from nose-bleeding and other symptoms due to toxic fumes released by (most likely untested) rubber surfaces used on their running tracks. This happened only months ago. It really would surprise me if those same materials were *not* used here...
b) Those lanes would be even more enjoyable if people going for a stroll in the evenings actually recognized them for what they are and stayed on their side of the sidewalk (see my future upload). There is ample space for that. In theory.
Still, all in all some very nice developments over here!
© Andy Brandl (2016) // PhotonMix Photography
--> Andy Brandl @ Robert Harding
--> Andy Brandl @ Getty Images