Remember how some moms (mine never did) used to tell their kids to eat all their food because a kid in China was going hungry?
Well, here in NJ we complain about the turnpike, but they’re having a 62-mile traffic jam in China:
China’s nine-day traffic jam stretches 100km
Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China’s growing road congestion woes.
The Beijing-Tibet expressway slowed to a crawl on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks heading to the capital, and compounded by road maintenance work that began five days later, the Global Times said.
The good-old entrepeneurs went to it,
The state-run newspaper said the jam between Beijing and Jining city had given birth to a mini-economy with local merchants capitalising on the stranded drivers’ predicament by selling them water and food at inflated prices.
This is what a traffic jam to Inner Mongolia looks like:
Pretty much like the Turnpike, only slower and with different signs.
The TrogloPundit wants to know, Was Obama in China? Good question!
UPDATE, Wednesday 25 August
Oh, for Thomas Friedman to be in China for a day
