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Will New Chinese Infrastructure Prevent the Next 10-Day Traffic Jam?

Posted October 22, 2010 8:12 AM

From Fast Company:

A super-speed railway and a widened highway are set to ease the country's traffic and congestion. China just keeps growing and growing and this week two critical infrastructure announcements were made--the first being that the country is building a new super-speed railway and the second being that the country is expanding its highway from Beijing to Tibet in an effort to prevent any future long, historic traffic jams from ever happening again. (In early September a traffic jam lasted for 10 days and stretched on for 180 kilometers).

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10/23/2010 3:36 AM

I am currently in the Shanghai area of China. I thought US big city traffic was bad until I came here. It is absolute insanity at almost any hour of the day. It is not just the number of cars and trucks that make it nuts, its the seemingly endless stream of people on mopeds, bicycles, motorcycles, homemade tricycles, old garden tractors that have been converted in to small dump trucks, (no I am not kidding). Top that off with the fact that the average driving experience in all of China is something like 5 years and you have complete chaos. It is normal to be in 6 row traffic on a three lane road and common traffic courtesy is completely non existent. Traffic laws are not enforced and the lines on the road mean nothing. Until that is addressed it will not matter how many roads they build, it will be crazy here on the roads.

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10/23/2010 3:49 AM

Are you sure you know what is really related to what and where, or why?

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10/25/2010 1:49 PM

Lots of disconnected detail.

49% increase in truck traffic due to coal in inner Mongolia?

Can coal be transported by rail at 500Km/H?

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10/25/2010 10:23 PM

I guess it could if it was on the rail link over to India. But that's kinda a fair bit "out of the way".

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10/26/2010 2:35 PM

The reason for the 10 day traffic jams was the motorists were afraid to use the railroad crossings. When asked, the motorists exclaimed "we Chi Coltrane, too fast".

On another note: Will the Chinese name their trains after dead Tibetan Monks, like the Americans did with the Indians?

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10/26/2010 6:42 PM

"we Coltrane, too fast" What? and What? & 什么是"西藏"

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