In Beijing—and other large cities in China—street signs simply provide the Chinese Characters and pinyin. It may not be English, but pinyin is readily legible to most Western eyes.
Shanghai has to be different, and enters the fray with a confounding system of English translations to street names, further confused by variant spellings and the absence of an overall standard. It’s quite possible to see 淮海中路transliterated as Huai Hai Zhong Lu. To further addle visitors, you may still see old English trans literations (eg Hwashan RD). In this book, we have listed street names as they appear on street signs.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo
A relative newcomer to the Shanghai luxury market, the sumptuousness of the Four Seasons lobby extends throughout the hotel to embrace such extravagant details as the 24 hour butler service.
Hotel Telephone: 86-21-62568888
Hotel Address: 500 Weihai Rd/Shime No1 Rd
Website:www.fourseasons.com
Wendy, Shanghai Expo
Four thousand brand-new taxis for the 2010 World Expo will hit the roads next month. Most of them will be Volkswagen Touran cars, higher-level vehicles than the Volkswagen Santana cars that make up most of Shanghai’s current taxi fleets.
About 350 will be Buick LaCrosse Hybrids, in tribute to the coming direction of the local taxi industry, according to Huang Rong, director of the Shanghai construction and transport commission.
They’ll all be painted white and carry the logos of “World Expo 2010 Shanghai China” and Haibao, the mascot for the Expo. “The 4,000 taxis will all be booked by phone or online reservations,” Huang said. Meanwhile, the training of the 8,000 Expo taxi drivers has started, the Shanghai Communications, Transport and Port Administration Bureau said yesterday.
All of the taxis will have English service with interpreters on standby at the operating center of every taxi company when the World Expo opens in May.
Wendy, Shanghai Expo
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