Road to Nowhere

And you thought your city's traffic was bad? If it still took you less than a day to get to where you were going, then I think some people in China would consider you lucky.

From Yahoo! News:

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.

I'm guessing that nine months from now, there's going to be a surge in births in that region. Lots of little Chevys, Mercedes, and Lexuses.