100km Traffic Jam!

[Vroomtattat]

MONSTER JAM!

 

100km traffic jam

Beijing-Tibet highway gridlocked for 10 days; alternative route not open

By Peh Shing Huei, China Bureau Chief & Charissa Yong

 

BEIJING: China's most notorious highway has now been paralysed for 10 days by a traffic jam that stretches for some 100km and snakes from Inner Mongolia to the Chinese capital.

 

The Beijing-Tibet Expressway has been transformed into a road to nowhere since Aug 14, chalking up a likely record as the country's worst congestion.

 

While China already has 60,000km of expressways, second in the world only to the United States which has 80,000km, it seems that the growing power has an appetite for more.

 

Traffic snarls along these inter-city routes are growing increasingly common, with the Beijing-Tibet highway infamous for buckling under the weight of heavy usage.

 

With roadworks going on at the National Expressway 110 (G110), an older and alternative route, drivers have been forced to use the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, hence the current massive jam.

 

'We have no choice,' said trucker Huang Banzhu, who left Inner Mongolia on Saturday and did not expect to reach the port city of Qingdao in Shandong province before tomorrow.

 

The usual journey takes just 24 hours, he told The Straits Times at Yanqing county in north-west Beijing, bordering Hebei province.

 

Even though the state media reported yesterday that the jam had eased somewhat at certain stretches, the authorities expect the congestion to continue until after the G110's roadworks are completed in mid-September.

 

This would come as no surprise to regular users of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, where a massive jam stretching 70km lasted nearly a week last month.

 

The route also gets jammed up during bad weather, when it snows or rains heavily.

 

A major reason for the persistent congestion is that the 3,710km highway, which runs through seven provinces and regions before ending in Tibet, is a favourite of coal truckers.

 

This is because Beijing charges less toll on coal trucks compared with Tianjin city and Hebei province. While the capital imposes a flat rate on large vehicles, the surrounding cities tax according to weight.

 

This is why coal drivers have a saying: 'Even with the jam, go by Beijing' (ning ke yong du, ye zou Beijing).

 

As truck driver Liu Zhengqi, who has moved only a few kilometres in seven hours, said: 'We can't do anything about the jam.'

 

Every so often, the vehicles get to inch forward. Bare-chested drivers occasionally get out of their lorries to stretch their legs in the summer heat and chat with drivers in the vehicles near them.

 

'I just sit and wait, take turns to sleep and chat,' said a driver who gave only his surname Hua.

 

A cottage industry of sorts has sprung up to cater to these immobilised truckers, an unsurprising phenomenon given the enterprising culture of mainland Chinese.

 

Nearby residents turn hawkers, zipping between the stalled lorries on their motorbikes and bicycles to sell lunch boxes or cup noodles at four times the usual price.

 

Rag-and-bone men have also turned motorists' misery into a money-making sideline by collecting used bottles left behind by the drivers.

 

'(It is) not only the congestion (which) annoys me, but also those vendors,' a driver surnamed Huang said jokingly to the Global Times.

 

OMG! Imagine if this happened here? Sunday I got stuck in one for almost an hour due to YOG traffic diversions. It stretched for about 3km I think.

[SimonTan]

Got google earth picture or not?

No food and water how?

Ten fooking days....s--t and urine how?

 

[Good-Carbuyer]

MONSTER JAM!

 

100km traffic jam

Beijing-Tibet highway gridlocked for 10 days; alternative route not open

By Peh Shing Huei, China Bureau Chief & Charissa Yong

 

BEIJING: China's most notorious highway has now been paralysed for 10 days by a traffic jam that stretches for some 100km and snakes from Inner Mongolia to the Chinese capital.

 

The Beijing-Tibet Expressway has been transformed into a road to nowhere since Aug 14, chalking up a likely record as the country's worst congestion.

 

While China already has 60,000km of expressways, second in the world only to the United States which has 80,000km, it seems that the growing power has an appetite for more.

 

Traffic snarls along these inter-city routes are growing increasingly common, with the Beijing-Tibet highway infamous for buckling under the weight of heavy usage.

 

With roadworks going on at the National Expressway 110 (G110), an older and alternative route, drivers have been forced to use the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, hence the current massive jam.

 

'We have no choice,' said trucker Huang Banzhu, who left Inner Mongolia on Saturday and did not expect to reach the port city of Qingdao in Shandong province before tomorrow.

 

The usual journey takes just 24 hours, he told The Straits Times at Yanqing county in north-west Beijing, bordering Hebei province.

 

Even though the state media reported yesterday that the jam had eased somewhat at certain stretches, the authorities expect the congestion to continue until after the G110's roadworks are completed in mid-September.

 

This would come as no surprise to regular users of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, where a massive jam stretching 70km lasted nearly a week last month.

 

The route also gets jammed up during bad weather, when it snows or rains heavily.

 

A major reason for the persistent congestion is that the 3,710km highway, which runs through seven provinces and regions before ending in Tibet, is a favourite of coal truckers.

 

This is because Beijing charges less toll on coal trucks compared with Tianjin city and Hebei province. While the capital imposes a flat rate on large vehicles, the surrounding cities tax according to weight.

 

This is why coal drivers have a saying: 'Even with the jam, go by Beijing' (ning ke yong du, ye zou Beijing).

 

As truck driver Liu Zhengqi, who has moved only a few kilometres in seven hours, said: 'We can't do anything about the jam.'

 

Every so often, the vehicles get to inch forward. Bare-chested drivers occasionally get out of their lorries to stretch their legs in the summer heat and chat with drivers in the vehicles near them.

 

'I just sit and wait, take turns to sleep and chat,' said a driver who gave only his surname Hua.

 

A cottage industry of sorts has sprung up to cater to these immobilised truckers, an unsurprising phenomenon given the enterprising culture of mainland Chinese.

 

Nearby residents turn hawkers, zipping between the stalled lorries on their motorbikes and bicycles to sell lunch boxes or cup noodles at four times the usual price.

 

Rag-and-bone men have also turned motorists' misery into a money-making sideline by collecting used bottles left behind by the drivers.

 

'(It is) not only the congestion (which) annoys me, but also those vendors,' a driver surnamed Huang said jokingly to the Global Times.

 

OMG! Imagine if this happened here? Sunday I got stuck in one for almost an hour due to YOG traffic diversions. It stretched for about 3km I think.

Hmm... a bicycle would looks like a rocket on two wheels?

 

[Tianmo]

MONSTER JAM!

 

100km traffic jam

Beijing-Tibet highway gridlocked for 10 days; alternative route not open

By Peh Shing Huei, China Bureau Chief & Charissa Yong

 

BEIJING: China's most notorious highway has now been paralysed for 10 days by a traffic jam that stretches for some 100km and snakes from Inner Mongolia to the Chinese capital.

 

The Beijing-Tibet Expressway has been transformed into a road to nowhere since Aug 14, chalking up a likely record as the country's worst congestion.

 

While China already has 60,000km of expressways, second in the world only to the United States which has 80,000km, it seems that the growing power has an appetite for more.

 

Traffic snarls along these inter-city routes are growing increasingly common, with the Beijing-Tibet highway infamous for buckling under the weight of heavy usage.

 

With roadworks going on at the National Expressway 110 (G110), an older and alternative route, drivers have been forced to use the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, hence the current massive jam.

 

'We have no choice,' said trucker Huang Banzhu, who left Inner Mongolia on Saturday and did not expect to reach the port city of Qingdao in Shandong province before tomorrow.

 

The usual journey takes just 24 hours, he told The Straits Times at Yanqing county in north-west Beijing, bordering Hebei province.

 

Even though the state media reported yesterday that the jam had eased somewhat at certain stretches, the authorities expect the congestion to continue until after the G110's roadworks are completed in mid-September.

 

This would come as no surprise to regular users of the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, where a massive jam stretching 70km lasted nearly a week last month.

 

The route also gets jammed up during bad weather, when it snows or rains heavily.

 

A major reason for the persistent congestion is that the 3,710km highway, which runs through seven provinces and regions before ending in Tibet, is a favourite of coal truckers.

 

This is because Beijing charges less toll on coal trucks compared with Tianjin city and Hebei province. While the capital imposes a flat rate on large vehicles, the surrounding cities tax according to weight.

 

This is why coal drivers have a saying: 'Even with the jam, go by Beijing' (ning ke yong du, ye zou Beijing).

 

As truck driver Liu Zhengqi, who has moved only a few kilometres in seven hours, said: 'We can't do anything about the jam.'

 

Every so often, the vehicles get to inch forward. Bare-chested drivers occasionally get out of their lorries to stretch their legs in the summer heat and chat with drivers in the vehicles near them.

 

'I just sit and wait, take turns to sleep and chat,' said a driver who gave only his surname Hua.

 

A cottage industry of sorts has sprung up to cater to these immobilised truckers, an unsurprising phenomenon given the enterprising culture of mainland Chinese.

 

Nearby residents turn hawkers, zipping between the stalled lorries on their motorbikes and bicycles to sell lunch boxes or cup noodles at four times the usual price.

 

Rag-and-bone men have also turned motorists' misery into a money-making sideline by collecting used bottles left behind by the drivers.

 

'(It is) not only the congestion (which) annoys me, but also those vendors,' a driver surnamed Huang said jokingly to the Global Times.

 

OMG! Imagine if this happened here? Sunday I got stuck in one for almost an hour due to YOG traffic diversions. It stretched for about 3km I think.

 

 

here, custom jam 2 hrs already ppl want to fight liao..................10 days!!!

 

once I got trap in a jam in NSHW for about 40 mins.....................trust me, my balls drop man, 1st thing come to my mind is siao liao siao liao, going to jam how long? petrol can tahan or not, hp batt can tahan or not, no food , no drinks, cig also maybe not enough, toilet how? si liao lah....................

 

so worried because I ever saw once on the opp side of NSHW towards JB, the jam is like cannot see the dragon tail, hot in the afternoon, so many ppl got out of their car to smoke or wait by the road side.

[Tianmo]

BTW............Bro thanks for the contact............

 

$12, You think I no brain meh, cannot expect got meimei wear 3 point style to wash car some more!!!

 

Go in chop chop, change and high port fall out.......................I belly happy liao

[Vroomtattat]

BTW............Bro thanks for the contact............

 

$12, You think I no brain meh, cannot expect got meimei wear 3 point style to wash car some more!!!

 

Go in chop chop, change and high port fall out.......................I belly happy liao

 

Har har har . . . wait long long arhh . . mei mei?

 

Unker wear G-string wash your car then you know

[Tianmo]

Har har har . . . wait long long arhh . . mei mei?

 

Unker wear G-string wash your car then you know

 

 

if unker wear G-string in side and wash my car, I don't mind leh, no see I don't care.............but if wear outside or wear G-string only, I run fast fast liao lor and as I run I call 999!!!

[5936]

Read that this morning.

 

That's why for overseas trip always have snacks and drinks in car.

 

Dont drive with low fuel tank.