9 day, 62 mile traffic jam in China

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And I thought 495 at rush hour was bad.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100823/sc_afp/chinaroadtraffic

"The Beijing-Tibet expressway slowed to a crawl on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks heading to the capital, and compounded by road maintenance work that began five days later, the Global Times said.

The state-run newspaper said the jam between Beijing and Jining city had given birth to a mini-economy with local merchants capitalising on the stranded drivers' predicament by selling them water and food at inflated prices."

At least China's public transportation is easy to use...oh, wait....
 
im guessing that they are saying traffic was crawling for nine days. not that it took nine days to get through the jam
 
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