Post date: Oct 01, 2012 2:11:41 PM
China-Traffic Jam/Beijing -- Vehicles line 4 to 5 kms long on Beijing-Tibet Expressway
CCTV BEIJING - Vehicles lined for four to five kilometers on Beijing-Tibet Expressway on Monday morning near the capital's fifth ring road.
The queue was three kilometers long around 9:30 on the expressway which traversed Hebei Province and Inner Mongolia, destinations of short hauls for residents in Beijing. Vehicles concentrated near the toll gates. Compared to tens of hundreds vehicles left Beijing, much fewer ones drove toward the city.
A six-vehicle pileup occurred around 10:00, intensifying the traffic jam and lengthening the line to four to five kilometers.
At the same time, traffic went quite smoothly as a whole on the Beijing-Hongkong-Macao Expressway. However, jam was also formed when two cars rear-ended each other around 10:00 on the lanes toward Beijing.
Beijing Public Security Bureau has monitored the traffic by air on hot travel routes and expressway parts where traffic congestion happen frequently, thus to direct the traffic timely.
China started its toll-free policy for passenger cars with fewer than seven seats during the holiday period on Sunday, which surged vehicle numbers on expressways. Meanwhile, many people toured in Beijing's suburban areas during the holiday, worsening the traffic. Traffic snarls happened in most major cities across China on Sunday, the first day of the holiday.
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