Friday 12 July 2013

China "The Unofficial Mother Of Traffic Jams."

Traffic jams in China a serious trouble

  • China is crowned as the unofficial 'host' of "the mother of all traffic jams". On way back in august 2010 there was a longest traffic lasted for 12 days and stretched for more than 62 miles(100 km).
  • Traffic on the china national highway 110 had grown 40 percent every year in the previous several years, making the highway chronically congested.The traffic volume at the time of the incident was 60% more than the designated capacity.
  • The cause of the traffic jam was reported to be a spike in traffic by heavy trucks heading to Beijing, along with National Highway 110's maintenance work that began five days later. The road construction which reduced the road capacity by 50% contributed heavily to the traffic jam and was not due to be completed until mid-September. Police reported that minor breakdowns and accidents were compounding the problem.
  • Greatly increased coal production in Inner Mongolia shipped to Beijing along this route because of the lack of railway capacity also overloaded the highway. 602 million tons of coal were mined and shipped in 2009; production was expected to rise to 730 million tons in 2010. An additional factor is efforts by overloaded trucks which lack proper paperwork for their cargo to avoid a coal quality supervision and inspection station on  china national highway.
  • Locals near the highway sold various goods like water, instant noodles, and cigarettes at inflated prices to the stranded drivers. A bottle of water normally cost 1 yuan, but on the highway it was sold for 10 yuan. Drivers also complained that the price of instant noodles had more than tripled. Some vendors created mobile stores on bicycles.

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