reports that in January 2020, Shanghai's most beloved tourist meatgrinder, the Nanjing Dong Lu Pedestrian Street, will be extended eastwards. Stage one, commencing on January 2020, sees the pedestrian zone extend to Sichuan Zhong Lu, then to the Bund. Reportedly "top global designers" will be brought in to add "new landscape attractions," plus more of the usual: flagships operating at breath-taking losses, refurbished historical buildings and so, so much shopping. Shanghai New World will reopen at the end of 2019 after a nine-month renovation, where they've erected "China's first oceanarium in a shopping mall, the world's tallest indoor rock-climbing facility, [and] an upgraded skating rink." Most importantly, that hellish stretch of road between Henan Lu and the Bund will no longer be a death trap where people are forced off the pavement into traffic by the crush of humanity. Bundwards, we go!