China's Massive Traffic Jam

American Voices • World • ISSUE 46•34 • Aug 25, 2010

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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