Traffic Jam

So i was going through /k/ the Kopitiam section of the famour Lowyat.net Forum and a pretty interesting post caught my eye..

So has this ever happened to you, you're late for something, and you're rushing only to find that there's a massive traffic jam ahead of you and there's no way you can turn away from it?
And so you wait in the car cursing at your bad luck and wondering what's causing this jam...in most cases in Malaysia you'll soon come to know that an accident occured on the OPPOSITE road and the people on your road are just slowing down and looking at that accident and causing a jam...and then you curse yourself more...

But anyway the point is we have to be grateful that our traffic jams don't end up like the traffic jam going on in China since 14 AUGUST 2010 and as of yesterday it recorded a 9 day crawl! And merchants ended up making money from this buy selling water and food at high prices to the passengers of the cars...

The news from Google goes...

BEIJING — 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.

and

Traffic slowed to a snail's pace in June and July for nearly A MONTH, according to earlier press reports.

Here's the picture of the jam



See, there are worst days out there for other people and therefore we should be grateful that our traffic jams here only cause us to be late for our meetings and appointments for like only 20 minutes...you don't wanna be calling your boss or mom and telling them you'll be late by about a week or two because your stuck in a jam rite?

Source : Google News