China traffic jam stretches 'nine days, 100km'

I’ll never moan about the M6 again. :open_mouth:

A massive traffic jam in China has slowed vehicles to a crawl for a ninth day near Beijing, local media say.

Vehicles, mostly lorries bound for Beijing, are backed up for about 100km (62 miles) because of heavy traffic, road works and break-downs.

The drivers have complained that locals are over-charging them for food and drink while they are stuck.

There has been a boom in road building in China in recent years but vehicle use has soared at the same time.

The stalled traffic stretches between Jining in Inner Mongolia and Huai’an in Hebei province, north-west of Beijing, said the Global Times.

The road works which are obstructing traffic are necessary to repair damage caused by an increase in cargo lorries using the highway, the state-run newspaper said.

They are not expected to be finished until mid-September.

The motorway, part of the Beijing-Tibet expressway, is heavily used by lorries carrying coal from Inner Mongolia.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11062708

seems quite extreme.

but, a couple of fridays ago, there was a prob on the qe2 bridge, i remember, 1 of the travel reports on bbc radio 2 quoting, the clockwise queue, being, from the bridge, back to j26, waltham abbey, then a short clear run, and the queue started again, from potters bar, all the way back too the a3 :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:
thats a pretty big queue, i know there were a few factors, a couple of minor prangs, all the roadworks, and start of school holidays.
but, for us here in the uk, its only gonna slowly get worse :unamused:

I wouldn’t like to be the patrol sent to sort that one out!!! :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth: