Chinese Traffic Jam Stretches 60 Miles, Ten Days

[liberal N proud]

Thousands of motorists in China have been stuck for ten days in a jam that goes on for more than 60 miles.

Road construction started the jam August 14 in China’s Heibei Province on a major highway headed toward Beijing. The snarl got worse as some vehicles collided and others broke down. Officials say the backup could continue for a month because the road project is expected to last about that long.

The stretch of highway is a vital route for produce, coal and other supplies shipped to Beijing. It has become increasingly prone to big jams as the capital (home to more than 20 million people) consumes more and more goods. Growing numbers of heavy trucks hauling the freight cause damage to the roads which in turn need more traffic-slowing maintenance.

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2010/08/24/chinese-traffic-jam-stretches-60-miles-ten-days/

[uncommon]

1. ..........

:wtf:

[tanyev]

2. Yikes! That reminds me of a Dr. Who episode.

Doctor Who 3x03: "Gridlock"
The Doctor takes Martha to the far future, where New New York is caught in a permanent traffic jam.

[LiberalFighter]

3. They need more cars.

[david13]

4. You don't mean they need more cars. Who would drive the 'more'

cars. What you mean is they need more babies, to grow into adults, to buy the more cars, and also drive them.
Like they do here.
Actually China has a very wise and enforced birth control system, known as 1 child per couple. More than enough, since they are already grossly overpopulated.
Kind of like they are becoming here.
The cars are not the problem. It is the people. The over population.
dc

[CBGLuthier]

5. I bet it looks like this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC9d9rxjuhg

[slampoet]

6. The article yesterday Said that the jam had been there for 9 days. Now the WSJ Leaps to people STUCK

for 9-10 days which we don't know is the case or not from other sources and this WSJ article has no information to be saying that.


The jam itself could take just a mere 12 hours to go through but still be there days later.


Shitty lazy journalist!!

[RamboLiberal]

8. Vehicles are moving as little as a half mile a day

Yeah they are stuck for days.

Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning 60 miles — with cars moving little more than a half-mile a day at one point — has improved since this weekend, said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau general office.

But he said he wasn't sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return to normal.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38828837/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

[liberal N proud]

9. From what I understand people have been stuck for 3 days

[derby378]

7. This song is for you, China...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxoAyxEQ7Ro

Hang in there.

[Scurrilous]

10. Amazing. n/t