Serious Traffic Issues in China

If you thought that the M25 was bad during rush hour spare a thought for Chinese Motorists some of who have been stuck in a 100KM traffic jam which has lasted nine days.

The queue just outside of Beijing apparently stretches all the way to Inner Mongolia, it is believed to be caused by the cumulative effects of Road Works coupled with several breakdowns, and assumingly a lot of the breakdowns would have been caused by the trucks over heating after being stuck in the massive jam. According to State Owned Newspaper, Global Times, the drivers’ main complaints are being over charged by food and drink by locals.

Tom Tom Services

I got stuck in traffic this morning for the first time in months, the difference is that a few months ago I bought a TOMTOM Go which had live traffic updates and sure enough I have managed to avoid the traffic ever since. So it was quite a shock when I pulled up unexpectidly to the back of a traffic jam, I checked if there was a problem with the Tomtom only to find that the traffic services had expired and that I would need to renew.

Thinking that it would have been nice to have let me know I resigned myself to sitting in traffic for the next few hours, however going through the menu screen I selected Renew live services, entered an e-mail address and within 2 minutes it had updated and we were off on a diversion avoiding the traffic once more, and best off all you get 14 days to pay the bill, which can be paid through paypal, so I could pay from my phone.

This is exactly the kind of service I love, Practically instant and not needing to deal with any Human Beings.