One doesn’t have to drive on highways for long to notice that the system is obviously inefficient. Many highways in China don’t see much traffic during the day.

　　While Chinese can feel proud that our country is the king of the highways, it is quite another feeling to consider that the steel, concrete and labor that go into highway construction will have to be eventually paid by the vehicles that go through, and there just aren’t enough of them. That means a high toll rate is inevitable.

　　Now I understand highways are expensive to build and the investment has to be recouped（收回via toll collection. OK, you pay for what you get. But how much of the collected toll income goes toward paying back highway construction loans is very much in doubt. Has the whole thing become a scheme for meaningless job creation?

　　In China, collecting toll fees is a very well-paid job, and in some cases pays better than a full professorship. I assume receiving cash and handing out a ticket doesn’t need much education, right? It certainly can’t be more stressful than migrant workers pouring concrete on the road under the sun.

　　And then there are those obvious wastes at the toll booths（收费亭. China now has the world’s most beautiful and most expensive toll booths. Every time I drive by a toll booth and see a nice office building nearby for the so-called management staff, I can’t help thinking of the AC/DC song “Highway to Hell!”

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