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China's Massive Traffic Jam

August 25, 2010 | ISSUE 46•34

For 10 days, traffic on a 60-mile stretch of highway outside of Bejing has been reduced to a crawl, with many predicting the bottleneck will last until mid-September, when road construction in the area is completed. What do you think?

Thanks for the heads up. I'll try to avoid that route."

Wendy Daniel
Tone Cabinet Assembler
Maybe if those guys had left 20 minutes earlier, this wouldn't have happened."

Lee Harvey
Quality Assurance Monitor
Wow, China's going to have its hands full when all those female Traffic Babies start getting aborted."

Barry Pope
Systems Analyst

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