Why bother drilling tunnels when you can simply shave down mountains? That was apparently the philosophy behind the new Lu’an Expressway in China’s mountainous Guizhou Province.

We have already written about the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, the soon-to-be-inaugurated world’s highest bridge (625 meters or 2,051 feet above the Beipan River Valley), but the expressway running through the mountains of Guizhou and leading to the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge has also been getting a lot of attention lately. Viral videos of the impressive infrastructure project sparked controversy on social media because of the way it was built compared to other roads in the area. Instead of drilling towers through mountains or building around them, Chinese engineers decided to literally slice off mountain faces to make room for the Guizhou Lu’an Expressway.

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