This Insane Traffic Jam in Beijing Makes Los Angeles Drivers Look Like Wimps

Drivers were in traffic for five days when 750 million people came back from vacation at the same time

By Cameron Steurer Oct 09, 2015 8:20 PMTags
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In case the title didn't clue you in, there's an unbelievable traffic jam in Beijing right now, and even we Los Angeles residents are terrified.  Our sunny city is famed for its constant sucky traffic, but nothing, not even a six hour bumper-to-bumper clog on the 110, can compare to this 50-lane monstrosity.

Imagine your commute home from work. If you're lucky, it's 30 minutes or less. If you're unlucky, it's a couple hours long (sidenote: why would you do that to yourself?). If you live in Beijing, you may as well abandon your car and skip home on your own two feet because why would you sit there for what could end up being an entire day or more with nothing to do? Unless you have one of those cool little fold-down TVs in your car. We would happily sit there if we had one of those to watch.

Apparently this is what happens when 750 million people come back from vacation all at once. Drivers were reportedly stuck in traffic for five days.  Watch the video above and say it with us: NOPE.