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Is This World's Worst Traffic Jam Ever?
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Saturday, 10 October 2015

Posted on 10/09/2015 3:47:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway

50-lane highway resembled car park

Vehicles are seen stuck in a traffic jam near a toll station as people return home at the end of a week-long national day holiday, in Beijing, China. (Reuters) You might never complain about the morning rush hour again in your life after you see how thousands of cars in China were brought to an absolute halt at a toll booth in an epic traffic jam.

As many as 50-lane highway resembled a huge car park when almost half of China's 1.3 billion people returned to work after the National Day holiday, reports 9news.com.au.

After the long weekend away, this incredible bottleneck hit the residents hard as a checkpoint reduced the 50-lane freeway to just 20 lanes.

Not only Beijing, but cities like Shanghai and Nanjing also witnessed horrific traffic jams.

According to China's National Tourism Administration estimates, between October 1 and 7 more than 750 million Chinese were on the move.


TOPICS: Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: beijing; trafficjam
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To: PROCON

If you zoom in there are no stripes, but you already know they can’t drive. (And yes, my wife is Chinese, I’ve been to China, and you think they drive bad here? Ha. Go there once...)


21 posted on 10/09/2015 3:58:51 PM PDT by datura
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To: al baby

Id love to know the whole truth on this one


Since it’s at a toll plaza, they probably had a computer system failure that wouldn’t allow payments to be processed.

As a result, they wouldn’t let anyone through.

That’s my guess.


22 posted on 10/09/2015 3:59:46 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

You are a brave man, Jeeves :-)


23 posted on 10/09/2015 4:00:33 PM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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To: Zeneta

No - look closely at the far right side - the barrier after the toll booth.


24 posted on 10/09/2015 4:01:08 PM PDT by datura
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To: nickcarraway
Looks like the infamous unsold car graveyards


25 posted on 10/09/2015 4:01:26 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: Zeneta

Ya ain’t kiddin’


26 posted on 10/09/2015 4:02:54 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: Zeneta

What do they do when they close a lane when the toll collector goes to lunch?


27 posted on 10/09/2015 4:04:10 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s gotta be a cg photo. Most of the cars are white and black. All of the red and blue cars are the same make and the colors match between cars. There’s a smattering of yellow, green and orange and those cars all look like alike.


28 posted on 10/09/2015 4:07:05 PM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: datura

Well, that’s just a Cluster f888.

Maybe the Chi-com’s are trying to raise a few bucks by ticketing drivers with expired tags.

Thought it would be easier to funnel them into a few lanes.


29 posted on 10/09/2015 4:07:25 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: nickcarraway

What a nightmare. 50 lanes??!! I’m getting crosseyed just thinking about it.


30 posted on 10/09/2015 4:08:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: nickcarraway
First of all, I never realized that so many people in China actually owned vehicles.

Second, a 50 lane highway????? Where's the same going in the opposite direction?

Call me a skeptic but I don't believe that photo........

31 posted on 10/09/2015 4:08:38 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (<i>)
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To: Daffynition

What do they do when they close a lane when the toll collector goes to lunch?


The women take advantage of this time to finish preparing dinner.

The men log onto their Gaming accounts in Macau for a little online poker.


32 posted on 10/09/2015 4:15:28 PM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Travis McGee

Cool, do you have an after picture?


33 posted on 10/09/2015 4:17:21 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: Squantos

Roger that.


34 posted on 10/09/2015 4:17:58 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Zeneta
What do we think happens when the *National Day* festivities break up?


35 posted on 10/09/2015 4:26:42 PM PDT by Daffynition (*We are not descended from fearful men*)
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To: nickcarraway
"...more than 750 million Chinese were on the move."

There were only 154 million privately owned vehicles in China as of November 27th, last year.


36 posted on 10/09/2015 4:47:08 PM PDT by familyop (You're fired.)
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To: Travis McGee

Yeah that was a bad one.


37 posted on 10/09/2015 4:49:10 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: nickcarraway

Less than 1 in 8 Chinese people own vehicles. Most of them live in more Medieval conditions.


38 posted on 10/09/2015 4:52:02 PM PDT by familyop (You're fired.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

The middle-class Chinese are doing better economically than Americans.


39 posted on 10/09/2015 4:54:22 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: PROCON

Uhh, they are there. They go up and down! If you look hard you can see them.

PS. This looks like the border crossing into the US, from Mexico in San Diego! lol


40 posted on 10/09/2015 4:59:32 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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