Slow Bike in China

The traffic in Shanghai is very busy and very dangerous.  The drivers here just seem to do what they like and our bus driver even took us down the wrong side of a dual carriageway into oncoming traffic when the road we needed to use was blocked by an accident involving two lorries.  The majority of the local population here seem to use motorbikes or scooters, which have dedicated lanes next to the main highway, which seem to be safer, but I do use the term 'safer' in the loosest of terms.

Sitting next to the window on the bus I was able to observe this flow of humanity each morning during the 30-minute journey from the hotel to the Shanghai International Circuit.  

The first morning I sat with the Fujifilm X-T1 and 56mm f1.2 on a wide aperture to get around the dirt on the window taking images of the ebb and flow of the traffic.  While most of the images were put straight in the bin, I did manage to get a few that worked.

One of the other things we noticed this year when compared to 2012 and 2013 was the fact that the building work near to the track is getting closer each year.  In this city of over 20 million people, the need for new housing is getting greater and the city is certainly getting closer to the circuit.

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