G1501 Shanghai Ring Expressway
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The Shanghai Ring Expressway (), designated G1503, formerly designated as A30 and G1501, and also known as the Shanghai Suburb Ring Expressway (), is a that encircles
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, a direct-controlled municipality in the
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. It is entirely in
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, except for a small section in the nearby province of
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at its northwest end. It forms the final ring in a series of four orbital roads around the city of
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, with the others being the Inner Ring Road, Middle Ring Road, and the S20 Outer Ring Expressway. Part of G1503 Shanghai Ring Expressway in northern Pudong New Area is concurrent with the third ring, the S20 Outer Ring Expressway, due to the nature of the coastline of Shanghai with the
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.


Route

The
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of the Shanghai Ring Expressway is located at an interchange with S20 Outer Ring Expressway and Yixian Elevated Road in Baoshan District, and increase in a clockwise fashion. Immediately to the east of the interchange, the expressway descends into the Outer Ring Tunnel, so named because this section is concurrent with S20 Outer Ring Expressway. As the tunnel ends in Pudong New Area, it becomes an elevated highway for a short portion, curving southeast and then south, reaching the Wuzhou Avenue Interchange. Here, the concurrency with S20 Outer Ring Expressway ends, with the Outer Ring Expressway continuing to the south, Wuzhou Avenue to the west, while the Shanghai Ring Expressway continues east. The expressway curves to the southeast, meeting the G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway at its eastern terminus. The expressway continues southward, interchanging with
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as it traverses Pudong New Area before curving west and entering Fengxian District. Its east section, from Longdong Avenue to former
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border, was named as Yuandong Avenue before the expressway is finished and became a ring in 2008. The expressway travels west along the southern suburbs of Shanghai, passing through Fengxian District, where it interchanges with
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and Jinshan District. At an interchange with
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to the south and S36 Tinglin–Fengjing Expressway to the west, the expressway continues north, passing through Songjiang District, where it intersects with the concurrent G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway and
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, and
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, where it interchanges with the
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. It then leaves the direct-controlled municipality of
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for a short portion, entering the city of
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province, where it curves to the northeast and intersects with the concurrent G2 Beijing–Shanghai Expressway and
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at the Anting Interchange. The expressway turns east, back into the Jiading District of Shanghai, where it intersects with the G15 Shenyang–Haikou Expressway and the
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. Re-entering Baoshan District, the expressway becomes an elevated road, travelling above Fujin Road. At Tongji Road, the expressway curves to the south, paralleling the elevated Line 3 of the
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. This section is also known as Tongji Elevated Road, due to the fact that it runs above Tongji Road. At the southern end of Tongji Elevated Road, the Shanghai Ring Expressway returns to its
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marker. The expressway is tolled from just before the interchange with G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway in Pudong New Area, clockwise to just after an exit with , in Baoshan District.


Exit list

), destinations=, notes=Southern terminus of S20 concurrency


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