Beijing - China - August 2010

The biggest traffic jam ever in the world which lasted for more than 12 days. The entire Beijing – Hong Kong – Macau highway is packed with cars. The problem raised when more than 750 million (which is half the china’s population) have been to holiday because of the Golden week and the traffic got piled up on the penultimate day of the holidays closure when these people tried to enter the city. The Beijing city is also not designed to handle the heavy traffic at once. Allowing heavy trucks from coal mines has also caused the problems where the average speed of trucks are not more than 60Kmph. The commuters have witnessed many problems where the food and water prices were doubled and tripled depending on demand on the roads. Though the china has tried its level best to clear the traffic this traffic jam stands in the history as a prototype of bad city planning. So did you also experienced such traffic chaos in your city? Then do comment about your experience in the comment section below.