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12th Oct 2015

VIDEO: This 50-lane traffic jam in China makes us feel much better about Monday morning

Life in slow, slow motion...

Tony Cuddihy

If the head isn’t great and you’re already on your third coffee to get you going, spare a thought for these people in China.

This was the scene on the gigantic G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway as China celebrated a national holiday at the end of last week.

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National Day celebrations start on October 1st and run for an entire, with workers given three days off work in a bid to increase tourism.

According to the Independent.co.uk, the result was this 50-lane-wide gridlock due to a new toll station in Beijing squeezing too many cars into far too small a space.

This shows people walking between their cars as they wait for the gridlock to pass. This really puts the M50 into perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3kL6nMap2s

 

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