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The longest traffic jam in the world: Mumbai-Delhi traffic jam is no match for this problem. Here we are talking about the world's biggest traffic jam. Where hundreds of vehicles stopped at once. Lakhs of people got stuck on the roads at once. Lakhs of people had to spend many days stuck in traffic on the roads… In China's capital Beijing, people had to go through the world's longest traffic jam. There was a never-ending traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway.
The longest traffic jam in the world
World's longest traffic jam: Be it Delhi-NCR or Bengaluru, it is common for people to face traffic jams. When people have to leave for office, it takes them extra time. As soon as they leave home, the speed of vehicles comes to a halt. As soon as you get stuck in traffic, you start feeling suffocated. There is only one desire in the mind that somehow get out of this jam. After getting stuck in the jam, it seems as if the whole life has been wasted here. After getting stuck in the traffic jam for a few minutes, you start thinking about how you would feel if the traffic jam continues for 12 days. Even thinking about this gives goosebumps, but this has really happened. People were stuck in the jam for 12 days and vehicles could not move.
Where was the world's longest traffic jam?
People in China's capital Beijing had to go through the world's longest traffic jam. There was a traffic jam on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway (China National Highway 110), which is showing no signs of reducing. A jam of about 100 kilometers long occurred. Vehicles and people living in them remained stuck on the road for 12 days. This jam is the longest jam in the history of the whole world. As far as the eye could see, there were vehicles everywhere.
When and how did the world's longest traffic jam occur?
On 14 August 2010, the world's longest traffic jam occurred on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway. The jam was so long that people were stuck in vehicles for 12 days. They ate there, drank there and even had to sleep in the traffic jam. This traffic jam was caused by trucks carrying coal and construction material from Mongolia to Beijing. At that time, the Beijing-Tibet Expressway was under construction. Due to which vehicles could not pass. Due to the ongoing work on the expressway, the traffic has been made one-way. Trucks carrying construction material from Mongolia to Beijing blocked the exit from Beijing. The jam became so long that it took 12 days for the administration to clear the jam.
Vehicle defects –
The expressway was still being built, and the fleet of trucks carrying coal from Mongolia could not pass through the road. Many vehicles also broke down, blocking the road. The jam was such that the vehicles stuck there could cover only 1 kilometer in a day.
Houses had to be built for people stuck in the traffic jam-
The jam lasted so long that temporary houses were built on the side of the expressway for people traveling in cars and small vehicles and seeing the crowd of vehicles, food stalls were also opened there. Snacks, cold drinks, noodles and food were sold at four times the price. People were forced to buy water at 10 times the price.
When did the jam open?
The administration had closed all the roads on this route to remove the jam. First of all, the trucks stuck in the jam were removed. Work was done day and night to remove the people stuck there and finally on 26 August 2010, the world's biggest traffic jam ended.