Ha! That road’s not even CLOSE to being a “road of death”. It’s well carved from solid rock, is nice and wide, the cliff isn’t THAT high, and it even has a curb in most places. Sheesh! Not very deadly. You want deadly, try some of the roads in the Colorado Rockies – they have sections washed away by last night’s storm, no curbs/rails, have cliffs a minimum of three times the one in the photos above, and often are only ONE LANE wide (and you’re bound to meet some jackass towing a trailer wider than the road… going the other way).
This was in one of those viral emails about “dangerous roads of the world” and none of the death stats for those roads were as high (not even close) as Highway 17 which goes between San Jose and Santa Cruz here in California.
Not a road of death if you’re careful.
Location, Location, Location!
It’s called the Guoliang Tunnel:
www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinlin27a.htm
Wow. Cool place to visit.
@...deuce: Even more cool places to visit!
reminds me of one of the locations in carmageddon
i think i saw a thing about this on the history channel once.
also: is anyone else reminded of yoshi’s island from Mario Kart Double Dash?
moar like Road of Awesome
did they not have this on the most recent bond film?
my dream driveway. and it would be “of death” due to high caliber anti-tracter welcome mat.
This is in china- the real “road of death” is in bolivia. suc it.
must bicycle…
Ha! That road’s not even CLOSE to being a “road of death”. It’s well carved from solid rock, is nice and wide, the cliff isn’t THAT high, and it even has a curb in most places. Sheesh! Not very deadly. You want deadly, try some of the roads in the Colorado Rockies – they have sections washed away by last night’s storm, no curbs/rails, have cliffs a minimum of three times the one in the photos above, and often are only ONE LANE wide (and you’re bound to meet some jackass towing a trailer wider than the road… going the other way).
@...NoOneInParticular: That’s what i was thinking… In fact it looks a lot like a road of WIN!!
@traptin85: Totally, especially that one shortcut that takes you through the middle of the island.
This was in one of those viral emails about “dangerous roads of the world” and none of the death stats for those roads were as high (not even close) as Highway 17 which goes between San Jose and Santa Cruz here in California.