China Traffic Jams

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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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  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.

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• China: Jam stretching 100 km enters 10th day

  A massive traffic jam in north China that stretches for dozens of miles and hit its 10-day mark on Tuesday stems from road construction in Beijing that won't be finished until the middle of next month, an official said.Bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanning for 60 miles (100 kilometers) with cars moving little more than a half-mile (one kilometer) a da...