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| September 4, 2010 | 10,000 trucks stuck in 120 km monster traffic jam in China | | New Delhi: A northern China highway virtually became a parking lot when around 10,000 trucks got stuck in a 120 km
jam. An official with Jining traffic police in Inner Mongolia revealed that trucks loaded high with coal from Inner Mongolia were inching forward bumper-to-bumper
on the Beijing-Tibet highway, China Daily reported. Ever since maintenance work
began on a parallel route earlier this summer, the stretch of road connecting
the coal-rich city of Erdos to Jining in Inner Mongolia has been plagued with
traffic jams. According to the Beijing News, poor road design and insufficient
traffic management is to be blamed for the latest snarl-up, which has lasted for
more than 20 days off and on. An insider from Beijing Traffic Management Bureau
explained that four highways, Beijing-Tibet highway, National Highway 110, Xiguan
road and Beijing-Xinjiang highway, converge into the last one creating huge transportation
pressure and congestion. Reports on CCTV say the jams have already affected the
incomes of truck drivers who have been trapped on the highway, and they can neither
eat nor sleep well being stranded on the roads for days. The first long jam, which
started on August 14, lasted nine days and trapped thousands of vehicles in a
gridlock that extended for more than 100 km. Professor Ou Guoli of the School
of Economics and Management at Beijing Jiaotong University said there is no short-term
solution for the traffic jam. Ou said in order to solve the problem permanently
the country's industrial structure and transportation structure should be adjusted.
As for the transportation structure, Ou pointed out that railway is the first
choice for transporting raw materials such as coal. | |
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