When Gordon Wu, a Hong Kong-based infrastructure visionary helped to pioneer toll roads in China, he estimated that the Guangdong-Shenzhen Expressway would attract 30,000 vehicles per day. That was in the 1994.
By October last year, it had an average daily traffic flow of 361,300 vehicles and Wu's Hopewell Holdings Infrastructure is now among expressway operators who have kept key roads in China under good conditions after the introduction of toll on the roads according to the Asia Times.
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