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Video: Cars Stuck For Miles As China Highway Sees Massive Jam
China's largest toll station in Anhui Province saw a huge traffic jam as millions of travellers returned home on Monday, October 6, after concluding the 8-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
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In Search Of Soup Dumplings, Thousands On Cycles Clog Roads In Chinese City
The event was part of a trend of young Chinese travelling on the cheap and spending as little as possible at a time of scarce job prospects, when wages are under pressure.
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Tired Of Waiting At Red Light, Man Breaks Traffic Signal In China
A man in China was so enraged while waiting at a red light, he walked up to the signal and smashed it to the ground. A video circulating online shows the exact moment he attacked the traffic light and it makes for quite a bizarre clip.
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Man Transports Car On Motorised Three-Wheeler. Watch Bizarre Video
In today's edition of "Wait, what's that on the street?" a car was filmed being transported on top of a motorized three-wheeler in China. A video circulating on Chinese social media show the bizarre sight that has left several surprised.
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Sick Of Traffic, Man Repaints Road Markings. Fined
A Chinese man fed up with sitting in traffic during his daily bus commute came up with a brazen way of solving the problem -- repainting the lines on the road.
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China's Elevated Bus May Just Be the Niftiest Solution to Traffic Jams
We haven't gotten around to putting flying cars out into the real world yet but China's Transit Elevated Bus model is hoping to provide a neat solution to traffic jams. The elevated bus aims to "increase the utilization of road space" in the world's most populated country.
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Caught on camera: Child falls from moving car in China
Footage from the traffic camera in China shows a young child falling out of a car into the path of a taxi. Her father jumps out of the car just in time to save her.
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China doctor sets out to 'cure' bad driving
In China, where someone is killed in traffic every five minutes, one entrepreneurial doctor has an unusual approach for making roads safer: Treat bad driving like a disease you can diagnose before the driver even gets near a car.
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2,000 vehicles caught in China traffic jam
Nearly 2,000 vehicles were stuck in a massive traffic jam on a highway in China's Gansu province due to an ongoing road project and inclement weather, authorities said.The huge traffic snarl was on a main highway in northwest China's Gansu province, the China Daily reported on Friday.A team of 100 police officers has been sent to the congested Xing...
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Too many drivers spoil Beijing's big traffic plan
Here is the plan unwrapped last week by Beijing's city fathers to tackle the city's suffocating traffic: 280,000 new parking spaces; 1,000 share-a-bike stations; 348 miles of new subway track; 125 miles of new downtown streets; 23 miles of tunnels; 9 new transportation hubs; 3 congestion zones; and 1 cure-all, "the use of modern technology." Never ...
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LA, Beijing to exchange ideas on solving traffic
Two cities notorious for their choked roads are teaming up to share ideas on how to better manage traffic.A Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority executive says he is working on an agreement with his counterpart in Beijing that will lead to an exchange of technical expertise and joint research projects.While the notion of the car...
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Record 140 traffic jams hit Beijing in single evening
A record 140 traffic jams were observed in the Chinese Capital on Friday evening, state media reported, as the number of vehicles on Beijing's streets exceeded 4.5 million.Friday night's record snarls in a city already notorious for bottlenecks were worsened by rain and the approach of two national holidays, state-run CCTV reported.Chinese regularl...
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Latest Chinese traffic jam has 10,000 coal trucks stuck
Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles jammed for miles on a northern China road in the latest of monster jams that have plagued the country.State television broadcaster CCTV reported that about 10,000 trucks were stuck in the jam. The exact length of the gridlock was not clear but one of the worst stretches was a 75-mile (120-kilometre) span ...
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China's monster traffic jam rears its head again
China's monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) on Saturday on a highway north of Beijing, although that is a third the size of what it was.The traffic jam came four days after the break-up of an even bigger one -- stretching to 60 miles (100 kilometers) at one point.State med...
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China's growth leads to problems down the road
Chinese authorities proclaimed an end this week to an epic traffic jam that had brought some drivers here to a dead halt for up to five seemingly endless days. Which is heartening news, save two problems. One is that the traffic jam has not ended. "That's impossible," an officer at the Zhangjiakou Highway Traffic Police Detachment said Friday. "All...
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Video: Cars Stuck For Miles As China Highway Sees Massive Jam
China's largest toll station in Anhui Province saw a huge traffic jam as millions of travellers returned home on Monday, October 6, after concluding the 8-day National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
-
In Search Of Soup Dumplings, Thousands On Cycles Clog Roads In Chinese City
The event was part of a trend of young Chinese travelling on the cheap and spending as little as possible at a time of scarce job prospects, when wages are under pressure.
-
Tired Of Waiting At Red Light, Man Breaks Traffic Signal In China
A man in China was so enraged while waiting at a red light, he walked up to the signal and smashed it to the ground. A video circulating online shows the exact moment he attacked the traffic light and it makes for quite a bizarre clip.
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Man Transports Car On Motorised Three-Wheeler. Watch Bizarre Video
In today's edition of "Wait, what's that on the street?" a car was filmed being transported on top of a motorized three-wheeler in China. A video circulating on Chinese social media show the bizarre sight that has left several surprised.
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Sick Of Traffic, Man Repaints Road Markings. Fined
A Chinese man fed up with sitting in traffic during his daily bus commute came up with a brazen way of solving the problem -- repainting the lines on the road.
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China's Elevated Bus May Just Be the Niftiest Solution to Traffic Jams
We haven't gotten around to putting flying cars out into the real world yet but China's Transit Elevated Bus model is hoping to provide a neat solution to traffic jams. The elevated bus aims to "increase the utilization of road space" in the world's most populated country.
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Caught on camera: Child falls from moving car in China
Footage from the traffic camera in China shows a young child falling out of a car into the path of a taxi. Her father jumps out of the car just in time to save her.
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China doctor sets out to 'cure' bad driving
In China, where someone is killed in traffic every five minutes, one entrepreneurial doctor has an unusual approach for making roads safer: Treat bad driving like a disease you can diagnose before the driver even gets near a car.
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2,000 vehicles caught in China traffic jam
Nearly 2,000 vehicles were stuck in a massive traffic jam on a highway in China's Gansu province due to an ongoing road project and inclement weather, authorities said.The huge traffic snarl was on a main highway in northwest China's Gansu province, the China Daily reported on Friday.A team of 100 police officers has been sent to the congested Xing...
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Too many drivers spoil Beijing's big traffic plan
Here is the plan unwrapped last week by Beijing's city fathers to tackle the city's suffocating traffic: 280,000 new parking spaces; 1,000 share-a-bike stations; 348 miles of new subway track; 125 miles of new downtown streets; 23 miles of tunnels; 9 new transportation hubs; 3 congestion zones; and 1 cure-all, "the use of modern technology." Never ...
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LA, Beijing to exchange ideas on solving traffic
Two cities notorious for their choked roads are teaming up to share ideas on how to better manage traffic.A Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority executive says he is working on an agreement with his counterpart in Beijing that will lead to an exchange of technical expertise and joint research projects.While the notion of the car...
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Record 140 traffic jams hit Beijing in single evening
A record 140 traffic jams were observed in the Chinese Capital on Friday evening, state media reported, as the number of vehicles on Beijing's streets exceeded 4.5 million.Friday night's record snarls in a city already notorious for bottlenecks were worsened by rain and the approach of two national holidays, state-run CCTV reported.Chinese regularl...
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Latest Chinese traffic jam has 10,000 coal trucks stuck
Thousands of coal trucks and other vehicles jammed for miles on a northern China road in the latest of monster jams that have plagued the country.State television broadcaster CCTV reported that about 10,000 trucks were stuck in the jam. The exact length of the gridlock was not clear but one of the worst stretches was a 75-mile (120-kilometre) span ...
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China's monster traffic jam rears its head again
China's monster traffic jam has reared its head again, with trucks and cars backed up for up to 18 miles (30 kilometers) on Saturday on a highway north of Beijing, although that is a third the size of what it was.The traffic jam came four days after the break-up of an even bigger one -- stretching to 60 miles (100 kilometers) at one point.State med...
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China's growth leads to problems down the road
Chinese authorities proclaimed an end this week to an epic traffic jam that had brought some drivers here to a dead halt for up to five seemingly endless days. Which is heartening news, save two problems. One is that the traffic jam has not ended. "That's impossible," an officer at the Zhangjiakou Highway Traffic Police Detachment said Friday. "All...
