14 DAY TRIAL // Traffic jams are a nuisance, there's no going about it. After all, the reason people buy cars is that they expect to use them to get to places, not because they need some fancy armchair-on-wheels to sit in in the middle of a highway.
If you own as car and you occasionally drive it, we'll go out on a limb here and assume that you're all too used to what being stuck in traffic looks and feels like. Or are you?
Well, unless you were in China these past couple of days, there is no way you can even begin to wrap your head around how confusing and annoying traffic jams can sometimes be. Check out the gallery below to see for yourselves.
There were nearly 100 million cars traveling down highways and roads
This past October 1, China celebrated its National Day. As the festivities came to an end over the weekend, people packed their bags and headed home. Soon enough, there were around 100 million cars traveling up and down the country's highways and roads.
South China Morning Post says motorways in and around Beijing, Guangdong, Sichuan and Anhui were the absolute busiest. In some areas, there were queues of more than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles). It was every driver's worst nightmare.
The photos in the gallery and the video below show part of a highway that became blocked after authorities had the bright idea to install a new checkpoint. Folks had no choice but to stop their engines, and so a mesmerizing 50-lane traffic jam was born.
This jam reportedly formed at about 2 p.m. local time this past Tuesday, October 6, on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway leading to the country's capital city. With nothing to do, people left their cars and went walkies on the motorway.
For some reason, no riots broke out. Perhaps drivers were feeling especially calm after their vacation.
