China's Nine-Day Traffic Jam Tops 62 Miles

A traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet expressway has now entered its ninth day and has grown to over 62 miles in length. This mother-of-all delays has even spawned its own micro-economy of local merchants selling water and food at inflated prices to stranded drivers. Can you imagine how infuriating it must be to see someone leave their blinker on for 9 days?

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At what point do you declare the road closed and stop new traffic from adding to the problem? I have to imagine that gridlock starts forming at all the on-ramps as cars are simply unable to move once on the ramp causing people to do u-turns, etc, which causes its own hazards...

There must be alternate routes, no matter how rural for those that _need_ to travel to do so. Letting people onto a highway that is backed up for 62+ miles is just irresponsible. Then again, this is China. Not that the government is entirely evil, but they don't have a track record of always looking out for their citizens best interests.