What was the reason for the 12-day traffic jam in China?

Especially if your life continues in a big city, you are quite familiar with traffic jams. But on August 14, 2010, such an interesting event took place in China that people spent a few hours alone. He was stuck in traffic for days.

What about thousands of vehicles in China? What led to such chaos?

The traffic jam, which was over 100 kilometers long and lasted for 12 days, caused the movement of almost thousands of vehicles to be restricted.

This congestion is one of China’s busiest roads. On G110 and Beijing-Tibet highway It was a chaos. While drivers could barely move their vehicles 1 kilometer during the day, some of them could not move at all in this traffic for about 5-6 days.

In fact, the main reason for this confusion is the road works that started on the National Highway G110 and It was due to a sudden increase in traffic of heavy trucks heading to Beijing. This road work was a construction that reduced the capacity of the road by 50% and was one of the most important reasons for congestion.

In addition, this maintenance was not expected to be completed for approximately 1 month. Of course, in the meantime Some accidents also occurred and the situation got much worse.

Another reason for this suffocating crisis was the increase in the number of trucks carrying coal from Mongolia to the capital Beijing.

While the coal transported in 2009 was 602 million, in 2010 this amount was to 730 million tons rose. Naturally, the increase in the number of trucks on this highway was the spice of the famous chaos.

Moreover, there were those who tried to turn the crisis into an opportunity. Various products such as water, ready-made food and cigarettes were sold at inflated prices to people stuck in traffic. For example, while 1 bottle of water costs 1 yuan, roadside vendors 15 yuan to these waters He put a price on it.

There was no point in being behind the wheel because the traffic was not moving and the drivers; sleep under their truck, go for a walk, or playing card games It had started.

All the while, authorities desperately tried to reduce this traffic by sending trucks on different routes and telling people not to drive.

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Additionally, officials are asking coal companies to solve this crisis. postpone their shipping operations wanted. The capacity of this highway was approximately 10,000 vehicles per day, but with this congestion the number increased to 14,000.

At the end of the first week, the authorities’ solutions did not seem to work, but over time the incident attracted media attention and people He stopped using the highway. Finally, 12 days of chaos came to an end.

China has faced many traffic problems since that incident, but this congestion in August 2010 worst turmoil in world history It is believed to be.

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