9 Day 62 Mile Long Traffic Jam

[nissangirl74]

This is what happens when everyone in China decides they need a car. Holy damn!!!


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[Mr1der]

yup.

thanks to the government, most of them have been driving as long as the average 25 year old or so.

s***'s bananas.

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Holy Balls. F that!

[nissangirl74]

I think they need to kick up their population control program a notch. There ain't no damn way I'd sit in that mess.

[krimsonviper]

That's hilarious! A mini economy sprawled from it! Could you imagine your excuse for work in that kind of traffic jam? Sorry I'm late boss! Traffic was killer! Been out there since Easter!

[Bmore-coupe]

EFF THAT MESS!!

[Black on Gold]

Glad its not only America where the other side of traffic is in a jam because they are all watching the other side.

[sx moneypit]

If this happened in the United States people would be killing each other by now.

[AppleBonker]

But they didn't say how long it took to drive the 100-km stretch. That is what I want to know. Or did I miss that somewhere?

[Bubba1]

If this happened in the United States people would be killing each other by now.

Yep, and in this country, don't forget the filing of 25,000+ separate lawsuits against the accident participants, the car manufacturers of each vehicle involved in the accident, the company that owned the vehicles (if commercial), the EMT's, tow truck/recovery service, police, fireman, the designer/engineering firm that designed the roadway, and the town in which the accident occurred.

[Poyzinous]

does it take a week to get from one end to the other? I don't like being in traffic for 9 minutes, much less actual days....

[dre1507]

can you imagine getting to class 9 days late? and my professor complains about me being 30 mins late. lol.

[Dattebayo]

But they didn't say how long it took to drive the 100-km stretch. That is what I want to know. Or did I miss that somewhere?

"Traffic was slowed down to a snail's pace"

That's it.

[AppleBonker]

I need a quantitative explanation of that speed in order to do the math. Google tells me a snail moves about 60 mm per minute, so 100 km would take roughly 1157 days... Unless I screwed the math up.

[Dattebayo]

You have to adjust the speed for relative size.

[AppleBonker]

Well, in that case, the snail moves roughly 4 times its body length every minute. So considering a car is roughly 4 meters in length it would move roughly 16 meters per minute. That would require roughly four days.

[Dattebayo]

I believe that would be the correct answer. Go us!

[AppleBonker]

How many times did I say "roughly" in that post. Word of the day I guess.

[Dattebayo]

I think the answer is: A screen door.

[THawks]

If I heard the radio correctly when they were talking about this earlier today, "experts" expect the current traffic jam to last 3 months.

[elwesso]

THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR STEALING ALL OUR GAS CHINA!

This article reminds me of the traffic jam at the beginning of office space where the guy in the walker is moving faster than traffic... hahaha

[alms24sebring]

hmm, I thought this was Northern VA for a second.

[Looneybomber]

[sentrastace]

oh. my god. f that. would use the iGun to shoot myself in the head several times.

[Jesda]

"MCRIB IS BACK!"