China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles

A traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway has now entered its ninth day and has grown to over 62 miles in length. This mother-of-all delays has even spawned its own micro-economy of local merchants selling water and food at inflated prices to stranded drivers. Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?

i thought they all rode bikes in China

[alen]

being how they are the first in the world in being green

Holy crap!

[Anarki2004]

Nine days?? I think I would walk home. Even if its 50 miles, that could be covered in nine days.I mean holy shit, wtf is the problem over there?

That gives me an idea

[Cetme]

Cue the Chinese remake of "Falling Down"... [wikipedia.org]

Idle

[Anonymous Coward]

This must be the first time the Idle category is really apt.

Call the Doctor!

[Ambiguous Coward]

I think I saw this on an episode of Doctor Who.

Re:That gives me an idea

[g0bshiTe]

So then the guy walking would be Chinese and the guy with the convenience store in the beginning would be American?

Translated to English

[IceDogg]

Here in the United States, we call this phenomenon "Atlanta".

Re:That gives me an idea

[retchdog]

Nah, he could still be Korean and it'd work.

Re:Holy crap!

[Abstrackt]

So later in the article when it says that "The congestion was expected to last into mid-September as the road project will not be finished until then" you actually think the same cars will be stuck in traffic until mid-september?

Those poor people...

Re:Just walk!

[daremonai]

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

Well, yeah, considering you're stuck in that traffic jam.