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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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Yikes!! I'll never complain about our freeways again.

Not a good place to be when it's pit stop time.

1 posted on 10/12/2015 10:17:43 AM PDT by QT3.14
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The left lane looks pretty good to me...


2 posted on 10/12/2015 10:19:30 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: QT3.14

Why don’t the person in front just go?


3 posted on 10/12/2015 10:21:31 AM PDT by BikerTrash
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Gee, 26 lanes of traffic funneled into 6. Think that might cause a problem?

4 posted on 10/12/2015 10:22:11 AM PDT by SGCOS
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To: QT3.14

Central planning working like a well oiled bernie sanders machine.


5 posted on 10/12/2015 10:22:29 AM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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Dude that makes the Green-White-Checker at Talladega look trivial!


6 posted on 10/12/2015 10:23:02 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: QT3.14

Yup, think I’ll take those side roads, except they’re probably reserved for the Ruling Elite.


7 posted on 10/12/2015 10:23:58 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: QT3.14

No sign of Greenpeace protesting the carbon footprint?


8 posted on 10/12/2015 10:24:53 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: SGCOS

I’m wondering if they got their highway planning advice from Ed Rendell and PENNdot.


9 posted on 10/12/2015 10:24:53 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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"Gee, 26 lanes of traffic funneled into 6. Think that might cause a problem?"

I can remember driving the government van from Camp Casey to Seoul down the MSR during my second assignment there. The MSR was four lanes going into Seoul ... however, there were always six lanes of traffic. One time, we were so close to a bus that I told my passenger to get the Phillips screwdriver out of the tool kit and start undoing the screws on the side of the bus ...

10 posted on 10/12/2015 10:25:11 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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When I see traffic jams, I always think if how much gas is burning up while the cars just sit there.

Ouch!

In these photos were probably seeing thousands of gallons of gas burning up while those cars barely move at all.


11 posted on 10/12/2015 10:26:08 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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Government “check point” is why there was a traffic jam. Not too different than at Mexico/US or Canada/US boarder crossings. Or any toll road toll booth.

I’m amazed that you can get that many Chinese drivers to stay in their own lane or orderly merge. ;)


12 posted on 10/12/2015 10:28:20 AM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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That REALLY needs to be emphasized ...

Central planning working like a well oiled bernie sanders machine.

13 posted on 10/12/2015 10:28:51 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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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!



14 posted on 10/12/2015 10:31:23 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I’m wondering if they got their highway planning advice from Ed Rendell and PENNdot.

Looks like the kind of planning go. moonbeam is famous for. If that was America under Lord foul the jammed lanes would be for Citizens and the clear lanes on the outside would be for illegals.

15 posted on 10/12/2015 10:32:31 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: QT3.14

Whose the Chinese Governor responsible for this? Probably due to some lane closures for political payback.


16 posted on 10/12/2015 10:32:47 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
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This has got to be a photoshop. 26 lanes in one direction?


17 posted on 10/12/2015 10:34:45 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: SGCOS

Why did they put a Gas Station in the middle of the highway ?


18 posted on 10/12/2015 10:35:55 AM PDT by butlerweave
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...and that’s not even the bicycle lanes.


19 posted on 10/12/2015 10:36:01 AM PDT by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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The Chineese have a reputation of copying and occasionally improving things.....with this traffic jam concept they have surpassed themselves.


20 posted on 10/12/2015 10:40:10 AM PDT by moose07 (DMCS (Dit Me Cong San ) - Nah)
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