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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/08/23/china.traffic.jam/index.html?section=cnn_latest

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/wo...-to-last-a-month/story-e6frf7lf-1225909285377

Epic traffic jam in China leaves drivers stuck for 9 days

Think you had a hellish commute this morning? Just be thankful you're not in China, where a traffic jam stretching more than 100 km (62 miles) has forced drivers to keep their feet planted on brake pedals for nine days.

The gridlock, which started August 14, involves thousands of trucks between the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Chinese capital of Beijing, according to state media.
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As I have told most people coming here, driving in China is asking for trouble.

I don't know what will kill me faster, the smog or the road rage.

Can you just imagine that phone call home? "Hey, honey, I'll be a little late, the traffic is backed up. How late? Well, I'll probably see you in a week?" :crazy:
 
Just read this, they should just give up and start a settlement. Also, I love how bikes have just weaved in and out and have been making a ton selling snacks.

Why I ride a bike.
 
Motorcycle, bro. I can have a shitty commute, but never quite as shitty as the chinese. ;)
 
I heard they're creating a 'straddling bus'.

A very ambitious project if you ask me.

http://sify.com/news/straddling-bus-to-run-above-cars-in-beijing-news-international-ki0radciigg.html


'Straddling bus' to run above cars in Beijing

2010-08-26 17:00:00


Beijing will start trial operations next year of an eco-friendly 'straddling bus' that can carry 1,400 passengers and allow other vehicles to pass under it, a move that can reduce traffic in the overcrowded Chinese capital.

The capital government has approved its assessment report and started manufacturing the bus and a 9-km route along the West Sixth Ring Road in Mentougou district, where the trial operation is planned to start in July, the Shanghai Daily said citing a Beijing Times report Thursday.


The bus's manufacturer, China South Locomotive and Rolling Stock Corporation, said it would take three months to finish making a sample bus, which is four metres high and looks like an elevated train bestriding a road, allowing vehicles lower than two metres to go through it under the passenger level.


If the trial operation proves successful, a total of 189 km of route will be built, connecting Mentougou with the capital's airport, said Song Youzhou, the inventor of the bus with Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co.


The bus can run at a speed up to 60 km per hour, faster than most ordinary buses in Beijing, and carry 1,200 to 1,400 passengers at a time without creating any road congestion. At that rate, the bus could reduce up to 30 percent of the overcrowded city's traffic jams.


The cost of building one km of bus line would be $7.3 million, which is only 10 percent the cost of a subway line. Besides, it would take less time to build the lines.


The bus will run on solar energy gathered from its rooftop and electricity through connection to the city's power grid, making it eco-friendly.

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As you may have noticed, trucks aren't supposed to pass under.

Can you imagine the catastrophe if just one truck driver forgets, and pass under when there are 1,400 people inside? :shock:
 
So what happens when there's a traffic jam with a truck stuck in the rail lane in front of the bus? In the video, it shows a truck in the same lane; so I can't see how that would work.
 
I'd just make it so that trucks can't go in lanes that would be under the hi-rise bus. Maybe he has an explanation for it but I don't have a clue because I don't speak mandarin.
 
That looks like the perfect recipe for road disasters.

So in the future we will have traffic jams with another layer of traffic running around on top of that? Sweet. :roll: Human inventiveness doesn't cease to amaze me.

Also: someeone explain to me how a juggernaut of that size, occupying three lanes, requiring a rail system of its own, requiring maintenance, cleaning squads, ... can possibly be eco-friendly just because it runs on solar energy? What? Who do they think they are fooling with their eco talk?
 
rofl, alec, this is China we are talking about, you are requiring CCP people to make sense?

Something stupid just happened a few years ago:

Beijing's public transit decided to purchase some low emission and air conditioned buses with sealed windows and roofs, since Beijing has desert weather, the summers gets incredibly hot especially in a crowded bus. It's a great idea, and you will save the environment too. Guess what happened? Some bureaucrats in the CCP decided that these buses used more gas than old buses, so in order to save a bit of money, he ordered these buses' windows to be pried open, so they can save a few bucks by no turning on the AC.
 
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