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Chinese drivers sit it out in 9-day traffic jam
(Agencies)
Updated: 2010-08-24 09:17
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BEIJING - The end may now be in sight for frustrated drivers who have endured a nine-day, 100 km- (60 miles) long traffic jam on a highway leading into Beijing, state media said on Monday.
 Vehicles on the road through the central business district in Beijing on August 4.?[Agencies] |
The snarl-up has been caused by roadworks, which are not expected to finish for another month, state news agency Xinhua said on its website.
Drivers, mainly of freight-carrying trucks, have had to kill time playing cards, the report said.
The traffic stretched back all the way into the nearby provinces of Hebei and Inner Mongolia, it added.
