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Unbelievable Photos From China's Traffic Jam After 7-Day Holiday
Huff Post ^ | October 8, 2015 | Alexandra Ma

Posted on 10/12/2015 10:17:43 AM PDT by QT3.14

s China's "Golden Week," a seven-day public holiday celebrating the country's national day, came to a close on Wednesday, Chinese citizens flocked home -- at the same time.

Around 2 p.m. on Tuesday, hundreds of thousands of northbound vehicles got stuck on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau (Jinggang'ao) expressway, People's Daily China reported. The 1,400-mile-long expressway runs between Beijing and Shenzhen, and connects along the way to other major cities in the Hebei, Henan and Guangdong provinces.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; freeway; gridlock; traffic
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To: butlerweave

Chinks knock off everything and that is a replica of the now closed Des Plaines Oasis overlooking the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway..... But they forgot to put it ABOVE the hiway!


21 posted on 10/12/2015 10:44:12 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: SGCOS
Lol..looks the the road on the 'left' is a toll road. At least that's what happens around here.


22 posted on 10/12/2015 10:46:09 AM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: QT3.14

Who does their traffic planning? Chris Christie?


23 posted on 10/12/2015 10:46:58 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Larry Lucido; cripplecreek; Red in Blue PA; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; ...
Uh oh, we've got major problems out on the Van Wyck. 26 lanes suddenly squeezing down into 6. Somebody SCROOOOOOOOD-UP on THAT one!



24 posted on 10/12/2015 10:48:05 AM PDT by PROCON (A proud CRUZader.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Don’t know about China, but when I lived in the Tokyo area, middle lanes would change directions at regular times daily to respond to the traffic flow.


25 posted on 10/12/2015 10:48:06 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: SGCOS

The point not to miss:

Look how many Chinese drive cars.


26 posted on 10/12/2015 10:55:18 AM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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To: henkster

That struck me too -
I remember watching Nixon’s trip to China on Live TV.
What was once a comparatively primitive country has jumped leaps and bounds in 40 years.
Soaring standard of living, housing values, consumer growth, city smog, and near fifth generation fighter planes.
Mostly thanks to us, a short sighted country that traded it’s wealth, standard of living and stature, to be able to buy lots of cheap foreign made goods...
What was that about capitalists willingness to sell the very rope they’ll hang from?


27 posted on 10/12/2015 11:05:25 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: SGCOS

Isn’t this a pay one-way toll stop.


28 posted on 10/12/2015 11:06:52 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

And they have absolutely no intention of following any sort of “carbon reduction” program. That’s for stupid Americans.


29 posted on 10/12/2015 11:09:09 AM PDT by henkster (Liberals forget Dickens' kids forged an Empire on which the sun never set.)
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To: SGCOS
"Gee, 26 lanes of traffic funneled into 6. Think that might cause a problem?"

Looks like the Bay Bridge toll plaza. Are hey collecting $6 from each car?

30 posted on 10/12/2015 11:10:01 AM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: PROCON

Wide lanes! Luxurious!


31 posted on 10/12/2015 11:11:16 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: QT3.14

This is just like the Florida Turnpike after an accident except it’s 40 lanes by 5 miles instead of 3 lanes by 150 miles.


32 posted on 10/12/2015 11:22:28 AM PDT by 867V309 (Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
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To: George from New England
Isn’t this a pay one-way toll stop?

Yup.

Off the bottom of the picture is where the incoming 4 lanes of traffic widen out into 26 lanes of parallel toll collecting.

33 posted on 10/12/2015 11:23:19 AM PDT by null and void (Reality 1, Liberal Academics 0)
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To: QT3.14

I have driven in China. Nothing you have ever experienced prepares you for that situation.


34 posted on 10/12/2015 11:24:52 AM PDT by stormer
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To: SGCOS; Zhang Fei
< ...26 lanes of traffic funneled into 6>

Try 50! Other websites refer to it as such.

35 posted on 10/12/2015 11:33:13 AM PDT by QT3.14
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To: PROCON; Buckeye McFrog; Larry Lucido; cripplecreek; Red in Blue PA; Gamecock; SaveFerris; ...

Should have taken the Rockaway Boulevard shortcut


36 posted on 10/12/2015 11:35:58 AM PDT by Gamecock (Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary is like saying Feed the hungry use food if necessary)
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To: QT3.14
I knew I should've taken a left turn in Albuquerque ...


37 posted on 10/12/2015 11:40:31 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: All
Two other pics from the People's Daily Online:


38 posted on 10/12/2015 12:00:12 PM PDT by QT3.14
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To: QT3.14

This makes Nascar pile-ups look trivial, LOL


39 posted on 10/12/2015 12:01:43 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: QT3.14

those are mostly Chicaps rather than Chicom’s

it ain’t yo granpappy’s bicycles any mo


40 posted on 10/12/2015 12:05:13 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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