Amazing Traffic Jams

[Cleaner475 150]

What happens when you have a porrly designed road system? This does:

Hope that amazed you,

Richard

[Artman94 2]

That third-to-last pic looked almost like some traffic accident...man that is a mess

guy in car,"screw this, i'm walkin to work."

10 min later

Boss:"John, why are you late to work?!"

John:"look outside the window, pal, and you tell me"

[kawan 6]

My god...did this happen spontaneously or did the traffic lights go out?

Looks just as bad as the traffic I had to endure in Baghdad and on the Iraqi border.

[steVie 0]

I'm sure some road rage would have come with this.  All I can say is OUCH!

[GMT 389]

oh... my... god...

and I'ma explode when I'm stuck in everydays rushhour for 20 mins...

[saltandsauce 0]

the place with all the lorries could fill a marshalling yard

[sc4portugal 10]

The toll booth ones were during a strike in Italy, I think it was on the A4 in Milan.

[pilotdaryl 25]

I see the first picture you posted is the Ortigas Flyover along EDSA in the Philippines, but that is not a traffic jam.  What you see on the flyovers are actually people, celebrating the EDSA Revolution.

But you really should see the traffic jams they have on EDSA in the Philippines.  They can get long...

[Cleaner475 150]

I see the first picture you posted is the Ortigas Flyover along EDSA in the Philippines, but that is not a traffic jam. What you see on the flyovers are actually people, celebrating the EDSA Revolution.quote>

Then its a people traffic jam

Richard

[Silur 3,308]

Originally posted by: cleaner475 What happens when you have a porrly designed road system? This does:

Richardquote>

 

Is this Moscow, Richard, yes ..  - Smolenskay square ???

[Cleaner475 150]

^^ I'm not sure I just found these pics around the internet, maybe someone else will know,

Richard

[Silur 3,308]

Hi, Richard ....

Excellent photos ....

Yes it is - this is Russia, Moscow, Smolenskay square, near Russian Foreign Ministry ....

Simple picture of Moscow day and night moving ... 

[Duke87 1,070]

Ah, yes, Moscow. The real problem with its transportation network is that it was largely designed under a communist regime, where traveling any significant distance required paperwork and not too many people owned cars... then the Soviet Union fell, those restrictions vanished, and all of a sudden the infrastructure was insufficient.

Something similar happened with schools in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Only white kids were permitted to attend public school, and only about a third of the population was white. Remove that restriction, and the number of kids going to school instantly triples, greatly overwhelming the existing infrastructure which was not designed to support that.

The real killer is that Moscow is also home to the world's most crowded subway system, so even encouraging people to leave their cars and use mass transit helps nothing. New capital construction has to happen.

[tankmank 853]

Heres some more this is Mumbai

I think tis is somewhere in new york

Some traffic in Vietnam 

here is Bangkok

here is Shanghai

and this last one im not sure where it is 

[Cleaner475 150]

Thanks for the pics Tankmank - the first one is really crowded - But the last one, that is some multi lane highway ,

Richard

[screamingman12 30]

I know what you all are thinking, "It's only a matter of time before someone brings up Los Angeles," well, here it is:

[TheJackalope 0]

Cairo has to be the worst, not just the congestion but the sheer lunancy of the drivers. There are no lanes marked and so what is a U.S. 4 lane road becomes a 7 lane road. No one obeys traffic signals and people regularly drive the wrong way on the far lane so they dont have to cross the traffic while taking a left. so what in the US would be this

vvvv median ^^^^ in Cairo is this ^vvvvvv median ^^^^^^v. Also while doing this they all drive extremly fast and very close together. We decided there was a Egyptian Theory of Relativity that states that at a high enough speed two Egyptian Taxis can occupy the same place at the same time. Outside the city at night they only drive with their parking lights on(the orange ones) so they can "save the battery", except when two cars approach each other on the highway when they are about 300 feet apart they flash their highbeams to "make sure the other guy is awake" totally blinding him in the process.

[Interchange 0]

That looks like the Bay Bridge toll plaza, 17 lanes of mayhem. It's right next to the Macarthur Maze, which is one of the most congested interchanges known to exist in the United States. There's a live streaming video link to it, where you can see how bad it gets during communte times in the day. Here's the link:

http://video.dot.ca.gov/asx/E80atPowell.asx

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[Explodingsims 3]

Wow, that one roundabout looks like an accident site...

And interchange, thats a mess...I count 4 vans that look exactly the same!!

[Haljackey 17,385]

 Wow, these are just insane!

Here are some from my neck of the woods:

Night jam

9 lanes in one direction, still congested.  Better widen it to 10 lanes!

Some guy thinks its faster to walk.  He may be right.

A jam miles long after a truck explodes in one direction and destroys a car in the other direction.

[Superchan 23]

lol funny traffic jams

[Cleaner475 150]

Haljackey: Night jam - Nice word, great pics too thanks,

Richard

[Haljackey 17,385]

LOL!  Found another one.

Click the image to view it in FULL RESOLUTION!

[Namesys 3]

holy mother, where is that from??!!

[Micah 16]

^ It's not real. I've seen a worse one of Houston in 20 years. Hahaha... I'll see if I can find it.

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

You forgot.....

I think you get the point BTW, Tankman, Since when does New York have palm trees?

[ryleeys 1]

Well, I've seen some nasty backups on the Washington DC Beltway... but I've never seen anything worse than the daily traffic in Guangzhou (where I lived the past 3 years), both automobile and human.

[tnt_for_the_brain 0]

Originally posted by: Duke87 Ah, yes, Moscow. The real problem with its transportation network is that it was largely designed under a communist regime, where traveling any significant distance required paperwork and not too many people owned cars... then the Soviet Union fell, those restrictions vanished, and all of a sudden the infrastructure was insufficient.

The real killer is that Moscow is also home to the world's most crowded subway system, so even encouraging people to leave their cars and use mass transit helps nothing. New capital construction has to happen.quote>

Well, in fact, the problem's much deeper. Unlike many other large cities, Moscow has the different road system. The main streets don't cross each other at a right angle. The system is radial-circular and many parts of the city are connected to the center by just one wide avenue. Moreover, people living in suburbs and moving into the city every morning use the same avenues what makes the situation even worse. However, this problem wasn't invented in the USSR. Moscow is a very old city (more than 8 centuries is its age) and its transportation structure was formed much earlier. Unfortunately, the conungs and tsars didn't know that their city would have to become a home for 3 million cars!

[Smarty218 2]

Well, here's some relatively moderate jams from Bangalore...

Also, here's one from Bangkok

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: ilikehotdogsalot

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Ah, yes. Manhattan rush hour. This is why it's generally more prudent to take the train if you need to be traveling around then. Just avoid the sardine packing plant Lexington Avenue line if you can.

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Heh. That one's really amusing. Jam packed one way and absolutely empty save for one car the other way. You'd think some adventurous people would hop the median and drive the wrong way in the empty lanes.