For those of you that say the traffic is bad in the UK (especially during bank holiday weekends!), it’s nothing compared to the one near Beijing which lasted for nine days. Local media state that a queue stretching around 100km (62miles) formed after a combination of heavy traffic, breakdowns and road works grinded the road to a holt.
The vehicles drivers, which were mainly lorries bound for Beijing complained that local people were charging them over the odds for food and water while they were stuck. State television said that the road has “basically returned to normal,” but there could be further disruptions as the road works aren’t expected to be finished till the middle of September.
The traffic jam was between Jining (in Mongolia) and Huai’an (in the Hebei Province near Beijing) and is a part of the Beijing-Tibet expressway; it is used heavily by lorries carrying coal to Beijing from Mongolia.
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