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Nine-day, 62-mile Chinese traffic jam in progress

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iwishiwascanadian:
I saw photos of it and it was a six lane road (three in each direction) just clogged.  I don't get how it's possible.  They said that traffic would move about a kilometre a day. 

Chris:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_China_National_Highway_110_traffic_jam

According to Wikipedia it's route G110, which isn't a freeway at all, just a two-lane road parallel to the Jingzhang Expressway (a toll road).

tdindy88:
According to this news article, the jam seems to have "disappeared."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100825/od_afp/chinaroadtrafficoffbeat

Brandon:

--- Quote from: Chris on August 25, 2010, 04:36:34 AM ---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_110
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_China_National_Highway_110_traffic_jam

According to Wikipedia it's route G110, which isn't a freeway at all, just a two-lane road parallel to the Jingzhang Expressway (a toll road).

--- End quote ---

Looks like overzealous shunpiking if that's the case.

US71:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0826/China-traffic-jam-vanishes-overnight

The China traffic jam that clogged over 60 miles along Beijing-Tibet highway for almost two weeks between Beijing and Hebei province has “vanished,” according to reports from MSNBC and the French news agency, AFP.

“Virtually overnight, local authorities had managed to disperse the congestion,” writes Adrienne Mong of MSNBC. “By the time we reached the area, all we encountered were the garden-variety traffic jams here and there.”

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