Expressways of Shanghai

File:Shanghai highway network.svg

Map of Expressways in Shanghai

Shanghai has an expansive grade-separated highway and expressway network consisting of 16 municipal express roads, 10 provincial-level expressways, and 8 national-level expressways. Three municipal expressways and four provincial-level expressways are also under construction.

Municipal express roads

Most municipal express roads are found in the inner districts of Shanghai, including several elevated highways which run directly above surface-level roadways. In Chinese, these expressways are literally termed city high-speed roadways (Template:Lang-zh), and their maximum speed is typically . These are still considered expressways or controlled-access highways because of the presence of ramps, grade-separated junctions, and the absence of traffic lights. Most of these expressways are elevated and run above a lower-speed roadway. The Inner Ring Road is a beltway, while the Middle Ring Road, is also a beltway.

Primary express roads

These are primary express roads that form a major backbone of expressways within the city core. Of these four, the Inner Ring, North–South, and Yan'an Elevated Roads form a 申 (a Chinese abbreviation for Shanghai) shape. The Middle Ring forms a second orbital surrounding the Inner Ring Elevated Road, and is fully complete. The 申 shape was originally partial until the recent completion of the Pudong Avenue Ground Way.

English name	Chinese characters name	Termini	Notes
Inner Ring Road Also known as Inner Ring Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh Template:Lang-zh	Ring road	long. Crosses the Huangpu River using the Yangpu Bridge and Nanpu Bridge.
Middle Ring Road	Template:Lang-zh	Ring road	long. Crosses the Huangpu River using the Jungong Road Tunnel and Shangzhong Road Tunnel.
North–South Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh (lit. South–North Elevated Road)	Pujiang Town	long.
Yan'an Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Hongqiao International Airport The Bund, Bund Tunnel, East Zhongshan No. 1 Road	long.

Auxiliary express roads

These are other express roads that serve as part of the municipal expressway network. Of these, six belong to the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub, a network of municipal expressways serving Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.

English name	Chinese characters name	Termini	Notes
Beidi Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Jiamin Elevated Road Middle Ring Road	long. Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.
Beiheng Passageway	Template:Lang-zh	Middle Ring Road & Beidi Elevated Road junction Haining Road & North Zhejiang Road	Eastern underground section under construction, to be extended to Yangpu District
Bund Tunnel	Template:Lang-zh		Speed limit of .
Dujiaqu Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Middle Ring Road, Disney Shanghai	Formerly known as Shenjiang Elevated Road.
Hongdi Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh		Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.
Hongmei Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Middle Ring Road at West Shangzhong Road South Hongmei Road Tunnel	long.
Hongyu Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh		Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.
Huaxia Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Middle Ring Road at Shenjiang Road S1 Yingbin Expressway near Pudong International Airport	long.
Humin Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Inner Ring Road	long.
Husong Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh		In planning.
Jiamin Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	,	Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.
Jianhong Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh		Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.
Luoshan Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh		Inner Ring Road at Luoshan Road/Longyang Road/Longdong Avenue,
Songze Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Jiamin Elevated Road	Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub.
Wuzhou Avenue	Template:Lang-zh	Xiangyin Road Tunnel	long.
Yixian Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Inner Ring Road	long.
Caobao Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh		Part of the Hongqiao Comprehensive Transportation Hub. Under planning.
Longdong Elevated Road	Template:Lang-zh	Inner Ring Road at Luoshan Road/Longyang Road/Longdong Avenue,

Restrictions on Driving

In Shanghai, there are restrictions on foreign license plates, temporary license plates, drivers with probationary licenses, and taxis not carrying passengers to drive on many municipal elevated roads. This ban is enforced by the police, and affects every day except Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays. They came into effect on November 2020.

The affected expressways include:

1. Municipal freeways, from 7:00 to 20:00 daily

1. Yan'an Elevated Road (entire route)
2. North-South Elevated Road (400m section south of Huma Road and Luheng Road, including Lupu Bridge)
3. Yixian Elevated Road (entire route)
4. Shanghai-Minhang Elevated Road (entire route)
5. Middle Ring Road (entire route)
6. Huaxia Elevated Road (entire route)
7. Luoshan Elevated (entire route)
8. Dujia Elevated Road (from Middle Ring Road to Xiupu Road)
9. Inner Ring Elevated Road (including Nanpu Bridge, except the section from the inner ring Zhongshan North 2nd Road entrance to the Jinxiu Road exit and the outer ring Jinxiu Road entrance to the Huangxing Road exit)
10. Longdong Elevated Road (from Luoshan Road Interchange to S20 Outer Ring Expressway)
11. Hongmei Elevated Road (from Middle Ring Road to S20 Outer Ring Expressway)
12. Beidi Road Tunnel
13. Yan'an East Tunnel
14. Beiheng Passageway (from Beihong Interchange to Tianmu Interchange and the grounding point at Wen'an Road).

2. Inner Ring, 7:00 to 9:00 and 17:00 to 19:00

Furthermore, there is a prohibition affecting the same categories, within any point inside the Inner Ring Elevated Road and the roads it is with.

Provincial expressways

Designations for provincial-level and federal-level expressways in Shanghai had the letter prefix A before the number of the expressway. Starting at the Yingbin Expressway, which was designated the number 1, the numbers increased clockwise around the city. For ring expressways, the designations A20, A30, A40, etc., were used. For expressways connecting to other provinces which already had national designations (beginning with the letter G), designations with the letter A were attached.

In August 2009, Shanghai replaced its system of naming expressways with the prefix A with the letter prefix S, in order to conform to the standard designations for provincial-level highways within China. The S means Shengdao, or provincial-level roads. The letter prefix A was abolished.

Signpost	Designation	Former designation	English name	Chinese characters name	Termini	Notes
File:Shanghai Expwy S1 sign with name.svg	S1	A1	Yingbin Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	in Pudong New Area at Pudong International Airport	long.
File:Shanghai Expwy S2 sign with name.svg	S2	A2	Shanghai–Luchaogang Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	in Pudong New Area Yangshan Port, Zhoushan, Zhejiang	long including the Donghai Bridge.
File:Shanghai Expwy S3 sign with name (old).svg	S3	A3	Shanghai–Fengxian Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Zhoudeng Highway	Extension to Fengxian District has been finished recently.
File:Shanghai Expwy S4 sign with name.svg	S4	A4	Shanghai–Jinshan Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	/ Humin Elevated Road in Minhang District in Jinshan District
File:Shanghai Expwy S5 sign with name.svg	S5	A12	Shanghai–Jiading Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Middle Ring Road Yecheng Road / South Bo'le Road in Jiading District	long.
File:Shanghai Expwy S6 sign with name.svg	S6	A17	Shanghai–Nanxiang Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	in Jiading District in Baoshan District	long.
File:Shanghai Expwy S7 sign with name.svg	S7	A13	Shanghai–Chongming Expressway	Template:Lang-zh		In planning, partly under construction.
File:Shanghai Expwy S12 sign with name.svg	S12	Never assigned	Chongming–Haimen Expressway	Template:Lang-zh		In planning.
File:Shanghai Expwy S16 sign with name.svg	S16	Never assigned	Shanghai–Yixing Expressway	Template:Lang-zh		In planning.
File:Shanghai Expwy S19 sign with name.svg	S19	A6	Xinnong–Jinshanwei Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	in Xinnong, Jinshan District in Jinshanwei, Jinshan District
File:Shanghai Expwy S20 sign with name.svg	S20	A20	Outer Ring Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Ring road	long. Crosses the Huangpu River twice, using the Xupu Bridge to the south and the Outer Ring Tunnel to the north. It is the third in a series of four ring roads around the city of Shanghai.
File:Shanghai Expwy S22 sign with name.svg	S22	Never assigned	Jiading–Anting Expressway	Template:Lang-zh		In planning.
File:Shanghai Expwy S26 sign with name.svg	S26	A16	Shanghai–Changzhou Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	in Qingpu District Continues as at the Jiangsu border
File:Shanghai Expwy S32 sign with name.svg	S32	A15	Shanghai–Jiaxing–Huzhou Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	at Pudong International Airport Continues as at the Zhejiang border
File:Shanghai Expwy S36 sign with name.svg	S36	A7	Tinglin–Fengjing Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	in Jinshan District in Jiashan County, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, just outside Fengjing, Jinshan District

National expressways

National highways and expressways in Shanghai both have the prefix G, an abbreviation for Guodao (Template:Lang-zh), which literally means National roads. It is important to note that both grade-separated, controlled-access expressways and normal at-grade highways both have the prefix G. Only the national-level expressways are mentioned here. National-highways which are at grade and not controlled-access are also found in Shanghai, and these include File:Kokudou 204(China).svg G204, File:Kokudou 312(China).svg G312, File:Kokudou 318(China).svg G318, and File:Kokudou 320(China).svg G320. Expressways also have green-coloured signs while their highway counterparts have red-coloured signs.

Designation	Former Shanghai A designation	English name	Chinese characters name	Termini in Shanghai	Continues towards	Notes
File:China Expwy G2 sign with name.svg	A11	Beijing–Shanghai Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Middle Ring Road Jiangsu border	Beijing	G2 Beijing–Shanghai Expressway and G42 Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway are concurrencies for their entire length in Shanghai.
File:China Expwy G42 sign with name.svg		Shanghai–Chengdu Expressway	Template:Lang-zh		Chengdu
File:China Expwy G15 sign with name.svg	A4, A5	Shenyang–Haikou Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Jiangsu border Zhejiang border	Shenyang (north) Haikou (south)
File:China Expwy G40 sign with name.svg	A14	Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Jiangsu border	Xi'an
File:China Expwy G50 sign with name.svg	A9	Shanghai–Chongqing Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	S20 Outer Ring Expressway and Yan'an Elevated Road Jiangsu border	Chongqing
File:China Expwy G60 sign with name.svg	A8	Shanghai–Kunming Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	S20 Outer Ring Expressway, S4 Shanghai–Jinshan Expressway, and Humin Elevated Road Zhejiang border	Kunming	G60 Shanghai–Kunming Expressway and G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway are concurrencies from Dagang Interchange of G1503 Shanghai Ring Expressway to Zhejiang border.
File:China Expwy G92 sign with name.svg		G92 Hangzhou Bay Ring Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	G1503 Shanghai Ring Expressway Zhejiang border	Ningbo
File:China Expwy G1503 sign with name.svg	A30	Shanghai Ring Expressway	Template:Lang-zh	Ring road almost entirely within Shanghai.Template:Efn	Ring road
File:China Expwy G4221 sign with name.svg	Never assigned	Shanghai–Wuhan Expressway	Template:Lang-zh		Alternate road

Yangtze River fixed crossing

Shanghai has one bridge-tunnel crossing spanning the Yangtze Delta to the north of the city. The G40 Shanghai–Xi'an Expressway follows the Shanghai Yangtze River Tunnel from Pudong to Changxing Island, and then over the Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge from Changxing to Chongming Island and finally via the Chongming–Qidong Yangtze River Bridge from Chongming to Qidong in Jiangsu Province on the north bank of the river. A second fixed crossing is planned to the west of this bridge, and will become part of the S7 Shanghai–Chongming Expressway.