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.
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...)
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.
You are a brave man, Jeeves :-)
No - look closely at the far right side - the barrier after the toll booth.
Ya ain’t kiddin’
What do they do when they close a lane when the toll collector goes to lunch?
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.
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.
What a nightmare. 50 lanes??!! I’m getting crosseyed just thinking about it.
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........
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.
Cool, do you have an after picture?
Roger that.
Yeah that was a bad one.
Less than 1 in 8 Chinese people own vehicles. Most of them live in more Medieval conditions.
The middle-class Chinese are doing better economically than Americans.
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
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