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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA nine-day traffic jam in China is now more than 100 kilometres long and could last for weeks
A nine-day traffic jam in China is now more than 100 kilometres long and could last for weeks, state media reported Monday.
Thousands of trucks en route to Beijing from Huaian in the southeast have been backed up since Aug. 14, making the National Expressway 100 impassable, Xinhua News reported.
A spokesman for the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau reportedly told Chinas Global Times newspaper that the backup was due to insufficient traffic capacity
caused by maintenance construction.
The construction is scheduled to last until Sept. 13.
Stranded drivers appear to have few options .....
http://theinternetpost.net/2013/02/25/100-km-chinese-traffic-jam-enters-day-9/
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)marmar
(77,091 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)This isn't the first time it has happened either.
Construction work, huh?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)And the photo is from here:
http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2012/09/preparing-for-carmageddon-ii-the-sequel/
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)in the mid 1990s.
I was there in the summer of 1990. The pollution from coal burning factories and homes was already bad enough. Because you can't drink unboiled tap water, we'd draw off some boiled water in the morning and put it in a covered teacup to use to brush our teeth in the evening, by which time the lid of the teacup would be covered in fine coal dust. However, most people rode bicycles or public transit, so at least there was no auto exhaust pollution. In Beijing, which is perfectly flat with little rainfall, riding bicycles made perfect sense.
Then the Chinese government began building freeways and encouraging people to buy cars. When I heard about this, I thought that this was the dumbest thing they'd done since the "kill the birds" campaign. (Mao, as an old farm boy, thought of birds mostly as critters that nibbled on rice crops, so he encouraged people to kill them. To the surprise of no one who actually knows about the balance of nature, insects went out of control.)
By the time of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, air quality in Beijing was even worse than in 1990. Remember how they had to shut down the factories and limit automobile travel to prevent the air from killing the athletes?
Lars39
(26,116 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]You should never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
Lars39
(26,116 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)Three years is a hell of a traffic jam!
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)How China has changed, eh?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)MineralMan
(146,331 posts)brooklynite
(94,728 posts)Yeas there's is (was?) a traffic jam, but the photos have nothing to do with it. The traffic delays are on a rural highway. The photos appear to be traffic in and around Beijing that are generally lousy.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)See http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/when-photoshop-is-so-good-its-bad/ - you can compare the original (non-jammed) and the one with lots of cloned cars and extra lanes.
I think this shows us how ironic The Internet Post's claim is:
Welcome to TIP. ABC, CBS, NBC and all the cable news channels are all bought and paid for and report what they are told to report. The MSM lies to and instigates people into political argument and gossip that leads to dead end roads and distracts from the real issues. There is much better informational news reporting away from the Democrat and Republican tail-spinning arguments that are usually rooted in confusion and hate.. TIP is your alternative.
I wouldn't trust 'TIP' to tell me the capital of France.
CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)If this was really Bejing, I do not believe you could see a thing as the area is invisible these days thanks to smog aplenty!