China's traffic jam may last another three weeks by Magdalena Rosova

China, the recently declared world's second biggest economy, is facing a huge traffic jam. The traffic jam was triggered by a road construction. Ten days ago snarl-up began and at one point it was even 100 kilometers long. The traffic jam is reaching to the outskirts of Beijing and authorities warn that it may last for another three weeks. The roads are worst hit in northern China, where drivers sit in the shades of their trucks and play cards. They sleep on the asphalt or bargain their food inventories. The cargo of many trucks carrying fruit and vegetables is rotting as the trucks are not refrigerated. On eight day of the jam, trucks moved only over a kilometer. China Cen! tral Television reported that some vehicles had been struck in the jam for five days. There were no portable toilets set up along the highway and so drivers had only one option – go into the fields. Surprisingly, no big complaints or violent road rage were reported. Drivers were only complaining over villagers selling food and drinks. The villagers came on bicycles and were offering food for 10 times the normal price. The traffic jam is on the Beijing-Tibet highway, which is linking the capital and the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia. The reason why the traffic jam has increased is the opening of coal mines in the northwest. China is doing everything to keep its boosting economy which has recently surpassed Japan and now is second only to America's. Even though wages in China are very low, the number of people owning car is growing. Just for illustration, vehicles on roads in Beijing multiplied by 1,900 per day in the first half of the year.

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