Chinese highway split in two by a house

  • House splits highway into two
Yes, the house has now good commute options
 

In Wenling, in the Chinese province of Zhejiang, an elderly couple refused to yield when developers wanted to bulldoze their house to make way for a motorway. Luo Baogen and his wife dismissed the government's offer of compensation as it was insufficient for them to rebuild, so their bluff was called - a section of their 5-storey building was left intact, and the road built around them.