Thursday 8 October 2015

This Crazy Beijing Traffic Will Make You Grateful For Your Commute

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China sure knows how to do insane traffic.
With millions of Chinese motorists taking to the road at the end of the country's week-long National Day celebration, a few traffic headaches were probably to be expected.
But the gridlock that clogged the main highway into Beijing, the 50-lane-wide G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, on Oct. 6 was truly something else.
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The expressway became congested with thousands of motorists after a new checkpoint caused traffic to merge down to 20 lanes, creating a bottleneck that backed up traffic for hours, according to The People's Daily.
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It is estimated 750 million people, or half of China's population, will be on the move during the National Day celebration between Oct. 1 and 7, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing data released by the Transport Ministry.













Olivia Niland

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful photos.the way it was captured by the photographer is interesting

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