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Carmageddon: This Is What 750 Million Chinese Hitting The Road Looks Like
If you've ever complained about your commute, or the traffic jams on your way to vacation destinations, here is some context from China...
As RT reports, the carmageddon took place on the 2,273-kilometer Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway that links the cities of Beijing and Shenzhen in the Guangdong province, at the border with Hong Kong on Tuesday.
According to China's National Tourism Administration, more than 750 million Chinese were on the roads between October 1 and 7.
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Oh man, and Asians are notorious bad drivers. You know it's true!
Who are the fucking assholes on the outsde road? That's were I would drive, fuck them
HOV Lanes?
H row V ranes.
Mai Kah Wei Ting !!!!
Q: How do you cut off an asian's peripheral vision?
A: Put 'em behind a steering wheel!
budumpshh!!
Yuan go do lai bing, mei bi yuan bu ling buk tsu li ding. Long du lai bu!
BORIS! Where've you been mate, missed you. You don't work in, say, Russian military logistics & planning? Been busy?
China reminds me of a giant Red ant colony. I tried numbering the lanes, but lost count after 40.
Very similar Bach. A tragedy.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-29/li-ka-shing-says-china...
most of the vehicles are either black or white, which is ok.
but some of them have colors. which is not ok and is frankly a little frightening.
These guys are amateurs. Give 'em all handguns and let the road rage begin in earnest.
Simcity in real life... -_-
The video shows us only 200metres of road. Perhaps it's not so bad.
it was pretty crazy between beijing and shandong
bathroom stops had like 30-50 person lineups ;O
and the air has been SOOOOOOOO bad in beijing this week
Driving in India, my bird's eye view...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR69S4_-Xvs
Now now calm down you Domestic Extremists. Let's not get all racial toward those orientals, y'all.
DWO (Driving while Oriental) can lead to ross of ricence
Looks like a great place to set up a windscreen washing service.
"...do not worry..."
so they keep on building moar roads, and trains routes,
have moar long long long weekends...
importing moar Russkie oil...
spend, spend, spend... (oh, fxck, fxck, fxck too, one-child policy is going)
wage increases next...
Keynesian infinite.
to save the world ??? Hummmmmmm.
Boris says: "Yuan go do lai bing, mei bi yuan bu ling buk tsu li ding. Long du lai bu!"
Translation: You want go driving, maybe you want bring book to reading. Long drive!
Am I right? What do I win?
Boris, I think I know who you are now. Your use of "tsu" indicates familiarity with another Asian country. No wonder you knew chiasmus.
Boris is Boris and Uchtdorf is Uchtdorf. You are happy, no?
Like bug in traditional rug.
Peace!
Very similar to the San Isidro, CA crossing up from Tijuana. At that border, there are some 25 lanes. It's a very busy border crossing for christ's sake. More ZH click bait!!!
Ho Ree Shit.
Hung So Lo
Common sense should dictate that you can't possibly reduce the numbe of lanes down to 40% instantly like that. There is a place around portsmouth/NN virginia that does something similar, or at least did a few years ago, so its isnt unique to china. It went from 5 lanes down to 3 in less than a mile or so. You get to that bottleneck before 4 in the afternoon, no problem, the avg speed slows from 80 to around 65, but no big deal. Get there after 430, stop and go, bumper to bumper for a mile and half or so, every goddamnmotherfuckin day. And you just sit there and think to yourself, only a govt run agency could possibly do something so stupid. And, low and behold, govts are the same everywhere.
I live there so you might be referring to the 664 southbound over the James River? Or posibly the Portsmouth-Norfolk 264 Berkley bridge tunnel? I don't know any place that alllows 80mph unless you're on crack and very stupid, but yea it's a mess during rush hour at places, let alone holiday weekends-like tomorrow. Interstate 64 over the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel will be 8 miles long by 4 pm...WITHOUT an accident. Why the fuck do people seem to think they'll get lucky?
Happy Columbus Day ZH'ers. Drive safe.
That also true in Seattle.
It gets narrower as you get towards downtown.
Allowing 80 is rare. Tolerating it to get the really high dollar tickets is rather common. Haven't been there for several years, but I didn't think Dade Co (Fl) would pull you over for under three digits unless you pissed them off for some other reason or they were missing goal at the end of the month. edit: Carl, I just realized where you live, and they may have raised goal since I was down there.
OMG wheres the bicycle route sheesh... Oh over there on the left top!!!! Its open smooth saling
What part of 2,273km (1409 mi) did you miss? My ex-wife rode from Homestead to Key West on a bike and was damn happy to see me when I put her bike on the car rack.
.gov official lanes
but...without .gov....who will BUILD THE ROADZEZ...OMG??!?!?!?
You didn't build that!
I've been in one of these traffic jams before. Note the triangle shape up front: that is a government checkpoint they use to perform searches of every car. The red building contains toll booths.
Edited to add: The other issue, which breeds the stereotype about Asian drivers, is that Chinese are very aggressive when driving, which quite ironically makes traffic jams much worse. Think about the people who pull into intersections and jam the intersection once lights change. That pretty much describes most every red light in Beijing during rush hour.
Been there, done that in a cab in Beijing during rush hour. It was the first and only time. Paid the fare, got out, figured where the nearest subway stop was and never got into a car in Beijing again. If it ain't underground in Beijing, it ain't moving.
lol
The subways were absolutely the way to go in Beijing. I can only read a few characters, but all of the signs had English as well, and Beijing's subway system is very well laid out and logical. That is quite unlike Seoul's... I can speak, read and write Korean, and I STILL get lost almost every time I take the subway in Seoul! (Asking directions is of limited use... they are mostly as confused as I was!) By the time I think I've gotten the Seoul subway system figured out, it's time to leave! I took the subway in Beijing by myself several times after only riding it twice, and I always found my stop the first time.
What do they search for at the checkpoints? Are the Chinese smuggling Mexicans too?
Drugs, guns, or sometimes just hassling to get bribes. In many parts of the world cops get extra cash from bribes. Here, it's through civil asset forfeiture. We in the USA managed to find something worse than bribes when it comes to stealing from citizens.
North Koreans
Nah man. It's because when they live on this side of the Pacific they drive 50 in the left lane on a 65 mph interstate, don't look before changing lanes, and generally cannot drive a straight friggin' line to save their rives.
Here that is anything in a burka. Most of our Asian community got here by the fall of Saigon. They drive better than Billy Joe Bob.
Fuck that shit!
I knew if I scrolled down far enough, someone would blame Obama for it...
Anyway, forget my complaints about the car park named the M25 here in Old Blighty...
No joke.....I can't count with that fish eye lense, but fifty lanes ???
Yeah, fuck that !
I would still take it over the E train. There were three consecutive cars empty except for a lone, odiferous bum during rush hour today.
Yes, it's a stereotype buthttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ynouCLrT9I
I'm fucked every morning with only 75 of them in front of me in the DC suburbs. 750 million of them putting on brakes going up hill ???? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Gas is too cheap to drive anywhere nowadays.
I've been stuck in the burbs going to the eastern shore bridge. Could not fucking believe it. Pretty much the same as the Chinese jam. Utter morons who developed that.
Other than the motorbike stuff, I've seen just about all or it during commutes to Miami. Except that here I kept having people raise a finger to boast about their IQ. Mostly 1, sometimes 11.
11?
Ah that never gets old.
I'd get a motorbike if i lived over there.
I'd get an AK.
You'd definitely run out of ammo, I mean a sheet load of ammo... C130 still have probs with ammo
There was a 1000+ fatality pile up on the Haji Highway the other day...and they were all on foot!
Political correctness has my tongue in a strangle hold.
Not me.
Them chinks can't open their eyes wide enough to see anything that's not right in front of them.
LMAO!
Lmao Zedong
Bullshit, San Francisco Bay Bridge toll lanes look like that every day of the year.
Yep, they are.
If there is a lot of VW's there they will all die. Cough
Reminds me of the SF Bay Bridge toll stations.
India traffic jam
http://s3.scoopwhoop.com/anj/No_cars/618340655.jpg
spent 4 hours going across mumbai one night. God I love Wyoming
A Touch of Sin
Decent movie imo
Luckily all were diesel VWs with extremely low emissions
IN FUCKING SANE!!!
I was in a taxi in China and the guy missed a turn so he took the off ramp to a highway to get on the highway. F'ing crazy drivers indeed. I've seen SUV's driving on sidewalks, let alone the scooters who do the same. Couldn't get out of that mad house fast enough.
Did that, by any chance, make your ride any longer and therefore more expensive?
Reminds me of Boston, in the old days, thanks.
Level 100 on Frogger.
it's like trying to drive to Las Vegas for New Year's Eve times-10 only with even dumber bottlenecks!
It's already there in Asia.....the streets of Manila have got seriously congested in the last 10 years and it will only get worse.
"Have got"? Are you kidding me? I haven't been in Manila for 15 years, but I remember a Christmas week in '98 or '99 -going from downtown Manila to a restaurant in Makati (about 7 km trip) with my wife and 2 daughters (3 and 5). After two hours, when we'd moved maybe half way, we turned aruond (well, the driver did - no way I was taking the wheel in that madhouse!). It would have been faster to walk but it was 95 degrees and so humid you were drenched in sweat five minutes after leaving the air conditioning.
Manila has the worst traffic I've ever seen.
Who ever would have thought that attaching a 25 lane superhighway to a 3 lane road might be a problem...
25 lanes? I counted about 45 vehicles across!
Mrs. Stengel and I flew into Shenzhen on Oct 1, 2013. As the plane got lower I realized that I was looking down upon, at the least, a 15 mile traffic jam outside Shenzhen. People everywhere. The next year we stayed home in Nanchang.
Nanchang! Holy cow, I love that town. Best BBQ in South Carolina.
It's the toll plaza. Fucking tolls, take them all out. I'd rather pay taxes than sit in traffic. Sorry, I know a lot of people on ZH hate taxes, but I'll pay them to not sit in fucking booth traffic. It's absurd.
you might think china would have adopted a simple traffic scanner like the cops use and bill everyone at the annual registration, with atms and loan officers onsite.
The chinese throw labor at every problem. They'll overstaff a vending machine.
Yeah but the pay's the same, as the vending machine that is.
That describes Dallas pretty accurately. No toll booths at all; either you get a TollTag or pay by mail, and you never need to go below 70 on toll roads. There are noticeably fewer cops on the toll roads too; I'd gladly pay a premium to drive on no-cop roads.
I hate the toll roads in Houston.
Count how many cars use them every day, consider the tolls each one pays and ask yourself why the state isn't overflowing with money. Oh, and there's gas tax, license, safety inspection (which, since Texas did away with the stickers,) they get to pocket even more money)
Its fucked up and I do my very best to avoid them.
If my doctor ever tells me I have a month left to live, on day 29, I'll be drunk driving the tollway shooting out the cameras.
the states are losing billions in road tax funds because of high mileage cars and less driving so the toll road is the future and super high registration fees and probably some other user related fees and property tax riders and other nonuser fees. did i miss any?
Pretty soon you'll probably see a regressive tax on older cars to force people to get new ones. I can also see special taxes/fees relating to various wearable (not the right term, I know) items such as tires and batteries. Smart cars will be able to determine how many occupants and tax accordingly (more for less or less for more or just more). Gonna have to tax satellite radio for the rights to receive the broadcast and it will be mandatory to receive the broadcast. One day, self driving cars will charge a tax if you are too inebriated to drive even though it is a self driving car. Of course, there will be robotic attendants every .25 miles (at each EZ Pass toll) to sell alcoholic refreshments (luxury taxes apply since we can't call it a sin tax anymore since sin is highly encouraged, and taxed). Oh and that mobile sex robot comes with a tax too.
Moar, MOar, MOAr, MOAR, MOAAAAARRR$
"Pretty soon you'll probably see a regressive tax on older cars to force people to get new ones."
In California, we call it the "smog check." It's very effective at sweeping old cars off the road. When your old car fails, the shops throw out obscenely high estimates. No guarantees, of course. They have no clue what's wrong or how to fix it, but they know it will cost you dearly, whatever it is they end up finding... or not finding. That's the time that poor folk start car shopping. The messed up part is that it's usually a cheap sensor or something that needs replacing.
But don't worry. Fracking is still unregulated, GMO crops are perfectly fine to plant, and if the chemicals you spray on them make the neighbor kids glow in the dark, it's no problem. Smog is the only environmental problem and we police it fiercely by forcing poor people out of their cars.
You laugh, but I know a bureaucrat who advocates for installing GPS in bike helmets to charge road/trail use taxes, and another that wants to include breathing in carbon taxes (short gym memberships!).
I don't know if they are greedy (to spend other people's money in their programs), stupid, or evil, but these people really do exist.
Toll booths in Houston what a way to slow traffic down, may I have change please!
Juat have drones chase down your car and pick your pocket at 80 mph. Easier and much more exciting.
Mathematical cash exchange is tricky for a GED toll employee. Give them exact change and they have to count it twice.
gun w/plenty of ammo - check
toilet paper - check
herb - check
whiskey/wine - check
714's - check
water - check
plenty of monkey jerky - check
blankets - check
xtra cell batteries - check
kids & ole lady - check
okay, ready for the trip to WallyWorld and back..................wtf.
You can still get 714's???
:)
Children of the '70's, LOL.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=714
Damn I had to look that up!
Thanks for the link. Learn something new every day!
Compared to that the 405 is great. No wonder they're buying up Irvine. Their country is more fucked than ours.
i didn't down arrow you, but please never use the word "great" and "the 405" together again in this lifetime. thanks in advance, sgorem.
Ha Ha! Its all relative. Kinda like being stuck on the fwy when Talladega lets out. Fucked and fucked.
In Talladega, at least we can stay in the Ghetto and continue a little light social fuckIng until the already fucked down fools clear out.
Looks like the northbound side of the Jersey Turnpike on a average Sunday night in the summer.
New Jersey drivers don't drive they intercept.
quality of life? usa times ten.
Ah NOW I see why citizens aren't allowed to own guns there.
I remember my first trip to Seoul, South Korea in nighties. Traffic is horrible. Regarding China, chopsticks in a gridlock.
That took some serious balls to make a trip to South Korea in a nightie. Especially if you're sporting balls.
Kumhotyre, work related. Didn't drive. I'm using my old BlackBerry z10 (wife's). This virtual keyboard sucks. Expect many spelling errors. Passport is creating climate change by being plugged into electric wall socket.
How did I use this phone for two years? It's a hand me down to my wife.
Great game...find Waldosan!
Imagine all the roadside shitting.
i was in japan when the tomei expressway was opened for business. the japanese totally forgot about restromms and rest areas so on the weekend the roadside was lined with people taking a leak, including women. thanks for the memory.
That parking lot is fucked up..
Wait till you see them on a "Fast boat to America"
North to Alaska...
I like how the officials advise people to drive slowly on holidays.
Boy, when the money hose gets turned off these people will be SO freaking fooked.
A couple of ZHer's received this a few days back. My wife is a good driver, she doesn't drive on the freeway. I'm the freeway chauffeur.
And there goes Mrs. Atomizer off to the Highway. If that really happened, we would be dead.
Bad Asian Woman Driver - Scary Driving Test Fail - YouTube
Chinese total population is 1.3 billion
R u tellin me half their population hit that high way and mostly in cars in that 1-week?
No way. The total population of privately owned cars in China is somewhere around 160 millon.
"Chinese total population is 1.3 billion"
Its funny, I'm pretty sure ~10 years ago it was estimated at 1.6 million. Either they got way more accurate since then, they lost a lot of people to the pollution, or they are closer to 2 billion.
1.6 billion. Yep, I bet its 1.8billion at least, now.
GOOG ?
Some of these folks just go off-line while driving. Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS27R2p1JkA
So are they required to have liabilty issurance over there?
I recall a science fiction short story about traffic jams and had to do some digging but I found it... The Great Moveway Jam by John Keefauver
Perfect for Chinese traffic jams, just don't ever tell Krugman about this.
Story in two pdf files.
http://krewedukat.com/GreatMoveWayJam/Moveway4005_001.pdf
http://krewedukat.com/GreatMoveWayJam/Moveway4005_004.pdf
Standard Disclaimer: I try not to think about this when stuck in a traffic jam.
Makes Austin and Dallas look like fucking back roads.
Hot Damn! One old fucker on a 3 wheel bike selling cold TsingTaos door to door would make a fucking fortune!
If that's the size of their highways then WTF do their sewerage pipes look like?
Sewage pipes, what's that? Filthy chinks shit on neighbor's door step.
...was in Manila a few weeks back. Those fukkerz are crazier than shit house ratz. I've done a lot of wack things in my life but I was never as terrified as crossing 6 lanes as a pedestrian in Manila. It would not be too bad if the traffic was at a crawl...but...it....wasn't.
Here's the procedure..... you've got what in any western country would be three marked lanes on each side and an island / divider in the middle.
OK, so logic might dictate that one vehicle to a lane.
Nope.
Since the average car / truck / jeepny over there is like 3/4 scale, now you have 5 auto-mobiles in what would normally be three lanes.
It gets better.
Throw in lane splitting scooters between each auto.....and everyone travelling at different speeds between 15 mph and say 45 mph.
Crosswalks? Yea, surely you jest. Not happenin.
Traffic lights?...well not on this stretch of the road.
So after a few days I discovered there is a pecking order....and pedestrians are dead nutz last. A close second are the scooter riders.... so here's what you do: If you're curbside..... the first rule is to just walk right in front of a scooter. Here's the reasoning....Scooter rider has about as much of a chance getting fuckked up as you if he hits you so most of the time Scooter rider will attempt to swerve around you, or in an extreme case, maybe even stop.
So now you're committed. Now your 5-8 feet off the curb in what would be the right lane... so you kinda ignore the vehicles buzzing along behind you... and try to poke your neck around to see what would be the next smallest vehicle that would be in the middle lane....so you walk few steps further... and now the cars / trucks make a bit of a lamo attempt to work their way around you.... you do this across the three lanes (really 5 lanes there)...and make it to the island.
It's really like the 80's video game Frogger.... seriously. Some one should set up camp in the meridian there with a bar.. 'cause I woulda slammed a few double rum and cokes right there ...
Then you do the same thing all over again, leaving the island / divider and headed off to the far side of the road.
By day four, I had my plan. I would only walk across these streets when Catholic school was getting out. I was like stalker dude.. waiting for a pack of 4th grade girls in their school uniforms..... I just figured of ALL the people you would not want to hit with an auto.... forth grade schoolgirls would certainly be on the top of that list. So... they're like fucking Gazelles or Springboks....they apparently have this strange sixth sense of how to dodge traffic almost effortlessly. So me, big gringo... was like their shadow. I was like 1/2 step behind them. By the end of the week, they would laugh...and wait for me, like my escort across the street. Still unnerving to be sure, but kinda funny in a weird way
So funny
Given the Chinese economic decline...I'm a little surprised they have the money for that many cars and gas...
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In Beijing, just take the trains or stay in a hotel at the airport. Better on your lungs .
It's a toll booth. There are 4 opposing lanes. So the normally 4-lane highway branches out to ~25 toll booths, then collapses back down to four. The SF Bay Bridge does the same thing, except that it goes from ~5 lanes up to only 15 or so. According to the video, it was a checkpoint just beyond the toll that created the jam. You let a bunch of TSA dickheads set up a checkpoint just beyond the Bay Bridge toll booth on any given weekday morning, it'll look exactly the same and probably a lot worse.
It's a big jam, no doubt. But "carmaggedon"??
Yep, I was waiting to see if anyone could grasp this simple concept. Same thing happens in chicago, or any place that has toll plazas. 5 lanes expands out to perhaps 20/30, then merges back to 5 after the toll is paid.
Wish they could make the 101 half that wide.
With all these Asian drivers there hoe the fuck do we know that what we are looking at is not the world's biggest accident???
O cmon this is easy to fix, it just needs another deck.
Double deck it.
This makes the Jersey Turnpike or Garden State Parkway look like a leaisurely drive through the country.
Self inflicted. Looks like Toll Booths or Customs and Border Controls.
Wait Jersey has a lot of those too.
And not a single car with pollution controls.
Carmadeddon is an excellent game. Easy to cheat so you have unlimited everything. The object is to finish the parcour first and beat the others but it really is more fun to kill pedestrians in every possbile way. Great stress reliever.
It's drive in movie night.
And this is what USSA'S Langley punks message to Tianjin and their German friends at ...nod nudge wink wink... Volkswagon looks like.
Onward ever faster to the raging tsunami of plunged, flushed and mounting Saudi Mercan toilet paper petrodollahs rupturing the global "capitalist" Ponzi sewer of western banksterism.
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