Windsor Genova - AHN News News Writer
Beijing, China (AHN) - A 60-mile traffic jam near Beijing entered its 10th day on Tuesday and authorities expect relief to come only by the middle of next month.
Repairs began on the Beijing-Tibet Highway on Aug. 13, and were followed by the closure of a major circumferential road in Beijing the next week. The result has created a major traffic jam on National Highway 110 that stretches towards the border with Inner Mongolia.
An official of the Zhangjiakou city's Traffic Management Bureau said traffic will normalize around Sept. 17, when road construction is scheduled to be finished and open up traffic lanes.
Stranded truck drivers played card games to kill time. Villagers along Highway 110 were making a profit out of the traffic jam by selling food and wares to stranded motorists
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BEIJING (AFP) – Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.
The Beijing-Tibet expressway slowed to a crawl on August 14 due to a spike in traffic by cargo-bearing heavy trucks heading to the capital, and compounded by road maintenance work that began five days later, the Global Times said.
The state-run newspaper said the jam between Beijing and Jining city had given birth to a mini-economy with local merchants capitalising on the stranded drivers' predicament by selling them water and food at inflated prices.
That stretch of highway linking Beijing with the northern province of Hebei and the Inner Mongolia region has become increasingly prone to massive jams as the capital of more than 20 million people sucks in huge shipments of goods.
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