China’s massive traffic jam could last for weeks

Boston Herald via AP ^ | August 24, 2010 | AP

[GQuagmire]

...Triggered by road construction, the snarl-up began 10 days ago and was 100 kilometers (60 miles) long at one point. Reaching almost to the outskirts of Beijing, traffic still creeps along in fits and starts, and the crisis could last for another three weeks, authorities say.

[GQuagmire]

[La Enchiladita]

Your screenname’s a perfect fit to the story.

[Red in Blue PA]

Contrast that image with North Korea's highways:

[Vigilanteman]

Did they borrow PennDOT as some sort of international exchange program?

[goseminoles]

That picture looks like the Clintons leaving the White House.

[Red in Blue PA]

Let's try that again.....

Contrast that image with North Korea's highways:

[dfwgator]

At least North Korea has cute traffic girls.

[jessduntno]

She looks stoned.

[fishtank]

it’s soma.

[GQuagmire]

Ooooo...wide lanes!

[Red in Blue PA]

it’s soma.

Or more likely, an empty belly.

[Red in Blue PA]

LOL!

[bgill]

Are they lemmings? At some point in those 10 days and 60 miles couldn’t they have found an exit or made one? Can they not postpone their trip? Can they not glance ahead down the road to take a different route?

Oh, to have a “private owned” gas truck parked along the side...

[WellyP]

All militaries world wide have taken note of this traffic jam!

[jessduntno]

It’s a brave new world out there.

[sionnsar]

Just like Seattle... except traffic is moving in the opposite direction.

[KarlInOhio]

This sounds like a Dr. Who episode where the entire suviving population of a planet was stuck in a permanent traffic jam.

Here in Ohio we get upset when a highway is closed for a few hours to find all the bits of a car that wrecked at 130 mph.

[LukeL]

Why not make the other side a one lane highway?

[AGreatPer]

And they go to the bathroom where?