Imagine Getting Stuck In The Longest Traffic Jam In The World On Your Drive Back Home

Your regular traffic jam happens to be one thing, but a gridlock of 50 lanes bumper-to-bumper, stretching ahead for 62 miles (100 kilometers) is something quite different. Such are the commuting-related risks when taking the highway in China, one of the largest and most populated countries in the world. Here congestion of traffic is not happening on highways only but reoccurs everywhere a road exists.

The worst of them all happened in 2010, on the National Highway 110. It lasted an unbelievable 12 days. Cars crawled along barely moving 0.6 miles (1km) a day. Some of the drivers literally lived in their vehicles for up to 5 days. Local people with an entrepreneurial bent sold them food and drinks at inflated prices, of course. The massive traffic jam was due to construction works on the road, compounded by a transportation network that has been over capacity for years.

To avoid the gridlock, many Chinese prefer the use of bicycles and public means of transportation. 30 minutes in a packed subway is time much better spent than three days in a crawling car, don't you agree? We can't even imagine how it feels to be stuck in a gridlock of such proportions.