Unbelievable Photos From China's Traffic Jam After 7-Day Holiday

Huff Post ^ | October 8, 2015 | Alexandra Ma

[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.

[Autonomous User]

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!

[Theoria]

Lol..looks the the road on the 'left' is a toll road. At least that's what happens around here.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Who does their traffic planning? Chris Christie?

[PROCON]

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!

[Vigilanteman]

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.

[henkster]

The point not to miss:

Look how many Chinese drive cars.

[MarchonDC09122009]

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?

[George from New England]

Isn’t this a pay one-way toll stop.

[henkster]

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

[Neanderthal]

"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?

[Larry Lucido]

Wide lanes! Luxurious!

[867V309]

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.

[null and void]

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.

[stormer]

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

[QT3.14]

< ...26 lanes of traffic funneled into 6>

Try 50! Other websites refer to it as such.

[Gamecock]

Should have taken the Rockaway Boulevard shortcut

[BlueLancer]

I knew I should've taken a left turn in Albuquerque ...

[QT3.14]

Two other pics from the People's Daily Online:

[nascarnation]

This makes Nascar pile-ups look trivial, LOL

[bert]

those are mostly Chicaps rather than Chicom’s

it ain’t yo granpappy’s bicycles any mo