60-mile Chinese Motorway Queue Strands Motorists
Traffic finally begins to ease on day 10 of Chinese mega-jam
A Chinese traffic jam
The jam, which runs for a 100km stretch of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway, has been caused by repairs to the route caused by the recent dramatic increase in traffic on the road.
The route, which runs from Inner Mongolia to Beijing and forms part of the Beijing-Tibet expressway, has had to bear a massive increase in traffic, particularly trucks carrying coal from recently discovered coal fields in Inner Mongolia (although the massive increase in car use throughout China no doubt has had something to do with it too).
Drivers have also reportedly complained of locals overcharging for food and drink while they were stranded (the drivers, not the locals).
Although the backlog is apparently beginning to ease, the road works are not expected to be complete until mid-September. So when you're stuck in bank-holiday traffic this weekend, just be thankful you're not on the Beijing-Zhangjiakou...
Pic: Roger Wo
They're not knock offs either, if I remember correctly, VW are one of the biggest, if not the biggest foreign car manufactures in china. The majority of taxis in the big cities are VW.
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