WestVirginiaRebel Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Yahoo News:XINGHE COUNTY, China (AFP) – Can a monster traffic jam spanning dozens of miles and leaving drivers stuck for days really disappear overnight?For days, Chinese and foreign media have issued reports explaining how thousands of vehicles were trapped in an epic traffic jam stretching for more than 100 kilometres (60 miles) on a highway leading to China's capital Beijing.The bottleneck on the Beijing-Tibet expressway, which began on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks and was compounded by road maintenance works... seems to have vanished.A team of AFP reporters drove 260 kilometres Wednesday along the highway out of Beijing, through the northern province of Hebei and into Inner Mongolia -- and did not encounter anything but intermittent traffic jams at toll booths.Hundreds of trucks were on the road to Beijing, packed with everything from produce to live goats -- but the traffic was moving."The situation has gotten much better recently. I don't know why," a female gas station attendant in Huailai county, roughly halfway from the capital to Xinghe county in Inner Mongolia, told AFP.Officials at the Beijing traffic management bureau were not immediately available for comment.________Communist magic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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