October 8, 2015

Carmageddon: This Is What 750 Million Chinese Hitting The Road Looks Like

If you've ever complained about your commute, or the traffic jams on your way to vacation destinations, here is some context from China...

Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 8, 2015 9:10 PM
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I drove in Manila for almost two years, so I can drive anywhere on the planet. Never saw traffic jams like that though.

From an aerial view, the Theory of Constraints at play.

Posted by: Snakepit Kansas at October 9, 2015 5:12 AM

Looks about as bad as a hot summer Saturday on the Garden State Parkway. But that smog... ugh. Poor buggers.

Posted by: Maggot at October 9, 2015 6:12 AM

4pm on any given Friday at the MidPoint Bridge in Cape Coral, FL. Bring your supper, and a piss bucket.

Posted by: ghostsniper at October 9, 2015 7:41 AM

You know what I'm grateful for? I can walk to work. Less than a block, as a matter of fact.

JWM

Posted by: jwm at October 9, 2015 9:06 AM

Nobody who's ever experienced the maddening ineptitude of an Asian driver should be surprised.

Sure the lanes are full but they'll be empty in an in hour.

Try the veal, tip your waitress.

Posted by: tim at October 9, 2015 10:07 AM

I see some anecdotes on American traffic debacles above in the comments, but . . . .

FIFTY lanes? Any place in N. America, or anywhere in the world other than China with fifty lane highways?

Posted by: Don Rodrigo at October 9, 2015 10:34 AM

Just another reason, among many, not to visit the Mainland. I've sat in a lot of Asian traffic jams (Jakarta was the worst, pre-1997 Bangkok a close second), but this is a whole new level of Hell.

Posted by: waltj at October 9, 2015 1:37 PM