World’s longest traffic jam that stretched for 100 km, 12 days, temporary houses were erected, it happened on…, the place is…

World’s Longest Traffic Jam: To reach the office in Delhi-NCR, people take 20-25 minutes extra from time. In cities like Bengaluru, people spend half their lives in traffic jams. 

If you want to catch a train or flight, you have to leave home much ahead of time. You never know when you might get stuck in a traffic jam.
Here, we are sharing with you the story the world’s longest traffic jam which lasted for 12 days.

A short jam makes you restless but imagine the plight of those who were stuck in that historical jam.

For 12 days, people were stuck in such a jam that the vehicles did not even move. The life came to a standstill.

This incident took place on August 14, 2010 in China’s capital Beijing on the Beijing-Tibet Expressway (China National Highway 110). 

The vehicles lined up to 100 km. For 12 days, vehicles and people sitting in the car were stuck on the road. This jam is the longest jam in the history of the whole world so far. 

While many motorists took detours, some ended up trapped for up to five days, sleeping in their cars and taking shifts behind the wheel.
Others played cards to pass the time and chatted by the roadside as 400 police were drafted in to ensure the communal road rage was kept in check.

And local traders made the most of the situation by setting up stalls and roaming from lorry to lorry selling their wares at exorbitant prices.

(Lorries stuck in the world's longest traffic jam in China. The tailback is 60 miles long and has so far lasted 12 days)

The road is long: Lorries stuck in the world's longest traffic jam in China. The tailback is 60 miles long and has so far lasted 11 days

Business-minded: Vendors swiftly set up stalls to sell over-priced goods to tired and hungry drivers

Playing patience? Lorry drivers play cards in the shade of a truck jammed on an entrance to the Beijing-Tibet Highway in Guoleizhuang township

Highway to hell: The traffic jam is due to construction on the National Expressway, which travels from Beijing to Huai'an in Heibei Province, and on to Jining in Inner Mongolia, because of damage done by lorries

Get your food and beverages here (at an exorbitant price): Vendors leap into action to sell their wares

Plenty of time for rest: A driver takes a nap in the shade under his lorry

Hygiene first: A driver washes himself after waiting over two days in the traffic jam... so far

Service with a smile: A vendor offers her wares to hungry lorry drivers

No end in sight: Cars clog a section of the second ring road in Beijing. Officials have admitted the tailback could last another three weeks

Congestion: Roads in China are vastly overrun and in a poor state of repair

Mirror, mirror on my truck, I feel really short of luck: A driver reflects on the situation on an expressway in Changping district in north China's Beijing municipality

Walking along the highway: A driver returns to his truck after stretching his legs

A field day for truck spotters: A local observes the chaotic scenes from the side of the road

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