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Epic Chinese Traffic Jams A Result Of Overflowing Consumer Need
Americans stuck in road traffic shouldn’t complain too loudly. They should consider themselves lucky they aren’t driving to work in China. About 10 days into the Chinese traffic jam, the gridlock extended for about 60 miles. Road construction being blamed for the traffic jam will continue until mid-September. Until then, the gridlock on a highway connecting Beijing and Zhangjiakou is likely to persist. Vehicles within the Chinese road traffic jam move about a kilometer a day. Some drivers have been caught within the road traffic jam up to five days. Demand for coal to feed power plants and China’s emerging consumer society has generated a surge in freight traffic that has been identified as the catalyst for the monumental gridlock.
Traffic jams enhance with China intake
Drivers inside china have learned to expect traffic jams. Nevertheless, the current congestion is well-nigh intolerable, even by Chinese standards. A Wall Street Journal story identified road construction that started on Aug. 14 as the culprit that led to the traffic jam on a main Beijing route through Heibei Province. Accidents and breakdowns exacerbated the gridlock. Little could be done about the road traffic jam, highway officials say, until the construction project is finished in about a month. Gridlock on this highway has become the norm as the capital city’s population of 20 million consumes more goods.
Coal trucks overwhelm Beijing route
A principal contributor to Chinese traffic jam conundrum is the trucks shipping coal that is burned for power to drive the world’s fastest-growing economy. Bloomberg reports that Inner Mongolia, a huge border province northwest of Beijing, surpassed Shanxi province last year to become China’s biggest coal supplier. After a pattern of fatal accidents, the Chinese government closed many mines in Shanxi–a province southwest of Beijing with an established railway infrastructure. Inner Mongolia has not yet developed a railway system adequate to ship the growing tonnage of coal produced there. Suppliers are forced to ship the coal with trucks via Beijing to port cities, where it is shipped to power plants in southern China.
Capitalism emerges in the strangest places
Motorists were resigned to their fates. For the most part everyone remained calm. Anger and violence are nonexistent, NPR reports, when sidelined drivers played cards and chess, took walks or just tried to sleep through it. Local villagers, zigzagging between cars on bikes, reaped a windfall selling noodles, box lunches and snacks. Motorists received a crash course in capitalist supply and demand. Drivers became dependent on the locals for their food and water. Accusations of price-gouging were common. A bottle of water that normally costs 1 yuan (15 cents) was selling for 10 yuan ($ 1.50). Instant noodles that cost 3 yuan (45 cents) within the store were going for three times that.
Additional reading
Wall Street Journal
blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2010/08/24/chinese-traffic-jam-stretches-60-miles-ten-days/
Bloomberg
businessweek.com/news/2010-08-24/chinese-demand-for-coal-spurs-9-day-traffic-jam-on-expressway.html
NPR
npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129395326
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