[F4AG] TRAFFIC JAM IN CHINA

 

 It take 13 days to cover 100 kilometer 

long in a jammed traffic..........................aah

WHO KNOWS IT COULD HAPPEN IN MUMBAI OR DELHI TOO.   Believe it or not: A traffic jam that's entered 13th day! Stretches 100km; may take as long as mid-Sept to clear

Beijing: Baffled by the world's longest traffic jam, the Chinese government has mobilised 

hundreds of policemen to clear the 100-km long stretch of the Beijing-Tibet highway,

 riddled with vehicles for 13 days, with the pile-up almost reaching the outskirts of the capital. 

There have been no reports of road rage, and the main complaint has been about

 villagers on bicycles selling food and water at 10 times the normal price.

 

Cops brought in to clear 13 day old China traffic jam

 

The snarl up on the highway, on a section that links the capital to the Chinese region

 of Inner Mongolia was triggered by road construction and repair. While all sorts of 

vehicles appeared to have been caught up in the jam, it was mostly caused by

 lengthy coal carrying trucks, which brings fuel for the industries around the capital.

 

 

 

 

The traffic jam was currently noticed about 60 km outside Beijing and officials hope

 to clear it in the next few days with the deployment of large traffic police at various places. 

The government has mobilised hundreds of policemen to clear

 the massive pile-up that has caused embarrassment here.

 

 

 

 

 

In the worst-hit stretches of the road in northern China, drivers pass the time 

sitting in the shade of their immobilized trucks, playing cards, sleeping on 

the asphalt or bargaining with price-gouging food vendors. Many of the trucks that 

carry fruit and vegetables are unrefrigerated, and the cargoes are assumed to be rotting.

 

 

 

 

On Sunday, the eighth day of the near-standstill, trucks moved just over a kilometer 

(less than a mile) on the worst section, said Zhang Minghai, a traffic director 

in Zhangjiakou, a city about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of Beijing. 

China Central Television reported Tuesday that some vehicles had been stuck for five days.

 

 

 

 

 

No portable toilets were set up along the highway, leaving only two apparent options --

 hike to a service area or into the fields. At several places, drivers, sick and tired 

of the snarl up, were bitter and angry as temperatures soared during the day and 

dipped in the nights. Many complained that local vendors were fleecing them for food 

and water, charging heavy rates, by selling water for 10 yuan as against 1 yuan.

 

 

 

 

The jam which some in Beijing say was not new in that particular section has 

also brought the spotlight back on China's soaring auto sales. The congestion is

 set to peak in five years, when the total number of cars is expected 

to nearly double, the Beijing Transportation Research Centre said in its new report.

 

 

 

 

If people continue to purchase vehicles at the current rate of 1,900 new cars 

a day, the total will reach seven million in 2015 in Beijing alone,

 reducing average speeds in the city to below 15 km an hour, the report said.

 

 

 

 

 

Traffic arrangements built up over generations in the U.S. are lacking 

in much of China, said Bob Honea, director of the University of Kansas 

Transportation Research Institute, who has visited China. 

"We'll see this problem more and more often. It's true of every developing country," he said.

 

 

 

 

 

"Beijing's already a big parking lot!" complained a taxi driver Gan during 

a traffic jam on the East Third Ring Road. "We're making another 

Great Wall, it's just that this one is made of cars," he said.

 

 

 

 

By the end of 2009, Beijing had four million cars, a growth of 17 per cent 

over 2008. Experts say the urban layout forces people 

to buy cars and the city planning leaves people no choice but to travel.

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