China traffic jam lasts nine days

Motorists suffer agonising 62-mile queue because of roadworks. Road-side stall owners make fortune

24 August 2010

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Chinese jam

There is an almighty piece of jam action occurring in China, leaving motorists crawling along for nine-days.

Road repairs to a busy stretch of highway have left lots of lorries carrying coal - and a lot of peeved drivers - stuck between inner Mongolia and north-west Beijing.

And somebody ring Alanis Morissette because there's something more than a little ironic about road works to repair roads mullered by lots of lorries causing traffic jams...leaving lots of lorries to muller the roads. Ahem.

Stall vendors, whatever they understand of ‘irony', surely understand something called 'money'. Motorists stuck in their cars have been complaining about road-side stalls overcharging for food as they wait.

Apart from the classic 'Eye Spy' and 'Guess The Cheese' games, what would you do if stuck in your motor for nine days?

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it is annoying but it will be a massacrer if you get stuck nine days in a car with you wife and kids :s

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If I was stuck in a car for days I would.... screw it, I'll just turn back. Unless I'm in a lorry, Turning wouldn't be so easy. :(

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Btw, where did they go when they needed to use the toilet?

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now i won't complain about traffic jams in bratislava

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Pffft....it's China. Why should their roads be any better than their manufacturing? That wouldn't happen here in the states. We wouldn't put up with it.

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