Watch the incredible footage of a 50-lane holiday traffic jam in China
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2017
- Drone footage captures the intense gridlock that left thousands of travelers stuck in traffic for at least three hours.
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"Just widen it to 51 lanes and that'll fix it." - Traffic engineers since forever
😂 😂 😂 😂 Legend
@@KoruGotrue
We need 1000 more lanes to fix it
It is just one day in the year
Moreover, what can one more lane do for that jam?😅
Widening a road doesn't necessarily decrease the traffic density.
Imagine going out there and selling empty bottles so people can piss in.
it's china - just piss out the door.
Profit
They've selling empty bottles for a price of a family KFC meal.
😂😂😂😂
Women be stocking up on depends 😂 😅
I literally would cry
imagine your car to break there
just imagine your car there and it's enough
danielwga 😂😂😂
Imagine your car ran out of fuel in the middle of the road
Oof
Imagine you get a heart attack there and need an ambulance
Respect to people who counted the cars on the highway.
Why would someone have to count it physically? There are toll gates with sensors that collect data automatically
@@sharpasacueballhe made a joke , but cringe
@@sharpasacueballit's a joke you dumb fzck😂
@@fdciabdulyou know people have autism or are just mentally ill. Give the guy a break 😂
So thanos was on to something I see
No i was correct i am ironman
Poor thanos :( he just wanted to prevent traffic
50 lanes
Fifty lanes.
FIFTY LANES.
*F I F T Y L A N E S REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
I know, right? I was shocked!😲 I mean...fifty FREAKING lanes and you still get that much traffic?! 😵🤪
That's at the toll station where roads are widened for faster toll collection. Ironically, there's no traffic jam after the toll station at all if you noticed. This traffic jam is CAUSED by this 50 lane toll collection thing.
Because making more lanes does nothing
@@tyapnekadegaming7997 because more people are on the highway when it expands
It's not actually 50 it's 25 I don't think 50 wod look like that 😂
So ..you're born when the traffic starts..by the time it's over you're..like 80 😂 ..happy life
Like that Doctor Who episode!
@@slavojalois1639 exactly
@@slavojalois1639 except there, the only way you can move forward is if the people in front die.
@@slavojalois1639 😂 was about to comment this!
Just for those who didn't get it, this isn't real traffic that a 50-lane road cannot handle. This traffic jam is actually CAUSED by the 50-lane TOLL STATION, after which there is very light traffic, ironically.
It is very true what you say and that I noticed just by watching the video, the real number of vehicles in China does not exceed more than 200 million that is, 1 in 10 Chinese has a car and with the retrisbutments in all of China the Roads and streets of China and a part of the Chinese use the train, as it also happens in my country, because only the existence of many tolls makes the illusion of mega traffic and traffic jams as well as how many lanes the road has in each direction, Although if everyone had 10 cars per person, remove all tolls, expand all roads in the world, even so the traffic will be minimal
@@Jesuis-qe8ql 4.17亿
@@Jesuis-qe8ql I just looked it up. Wikipedia says China has 315 million cars now and has passed the US with the largest number of cars (hardly a surprise). But cars per capita is still relatively low because the average person in China has far more options to ride public transport, which is cheap and efficient, so it is likely China's cars per capita will always stay below Western countries just because cars aren't really needed in Asia.
That's why here in NZ we have toll cameras instead of stations. China should be highly advanced, but instead well, this is 7 years ago. They surely would've had toll cameras now, or toll booth free highways.
3hrs for a 50 lane isn't bad at all..some US/ Mexico border have 6 lanes and takes 8 plus hrs on holidays
But no Chinese driving thru your border :D
@@Petrosilius because its not in china
You need to raise your standards
It isn't that bad for you because Americans are ignorant to efficient public transportation.
@@JCarlosAndradeR China isnt afraid of trains and they still have these kinds of problems. also why would you think trains will work when crossing the border between US and Mexico? it doesnt make sense, since they would need to stop trains to check every passport of every passenger and create another traffic jam with trains
and then a random guy in the middle of the jam needed to pee....
Got to bring a water bottle for that holiday trip.
dustin rippetoe toetoetoeee
O.O
J. R :*
Pee on a tire
This toll plaza is the world's widest toll plaza with 50 lanes. It's wider than 29 lanes of I-10/US 90/Katy Freeway and the 22 lanes of the 401 through Mississauga, but this toll plaza doesn't count as the widest freeway. The Katy Freeway holds that title and it upsets to Canadians who think the 401 has that title.
Bro it aint a competition💀
Ahem, I believe the claim is that Hwy 401 around "the basketweave" is North America's *busiest* highway by traffic volume. Don't know about Katy Freeway, but 401 has A LOT of semi-tractor traffics around the clock, which makes the claim credible.
And also, obligatory "video title is clickbait bullshit and cheating". No shit toll plaza is stupid wide. The actual expressway is probably 4-6 lanes at best.
@@BicyclesMayUseFullLane, the wide basketweave is in North York, Toronto just east of the 400.
@@sserpxeefor TxDOT it is 😅
"Just let me add one more lane bro. i swear It'll fix traffic" -Chinese traffic engineer graduated from some American University
But the traffic wasnt bad in the 70s because there was less humans
Anything to bash American right ? loser
As a chinese, why is this toll station so inefficient...
Leon Luo fake computer stops working
Leon Luo I had always hated tolls careless of them being inefficient. There is point blank no use of the toll in America, and almost all states in the North-east part of the US have tolls. Glad that I live in a toll-free area of the US.
Toll are basically taxes on the road
Ruby Kashiki They ARE taxes.
toll station needs more lanes, that will fix it :D :D :D
Engineer: Our highway plan means knocking down buildings. We'll need to contact Cityville.
Politician: Where in Cityville would be knocked down?
Engineer: Cityville.
Dear Lord...I wouldn't want to live there.
you should live in india or sri lanka..
That's not the reason you wouldn't wanna live there
@@formatcforcortex2465 hell naw, I don't want people to shit in my front yard
Pollution too...
This isn’t a common occurrence
I would be PISSED if I had to go through this thing and didn't know about it beforehand. Tbh this looks really stupid and dangerous to do. Smh.
This is the 405 from Irvine to LA
I heard of a brutal pile up on 405...
This is sickening, I hate seeing anything over two lanes.
Justin Babcock don’t go to Houston... we have 1 highways with over 26 lanes
dont come to atlanta
Come to Helsinki in finland
@@skidmark9863 fr thooo
This is a toll station so there are a lot of lanes
Imagine you get a heart attack there and need an ambulance.
That is just completely insane.
Just one more lane
can't believe this is real, I just can't!
Move to china and ur in for a surprise
@@jeygee3736 amazing
I almost got fooled by your pfp but you actually own that?
No, it's just the widening to a toll gate; most of the road is 4 lanes or less as seen in 0:19.
“Just one more lane bro, it’s going to fix traffic.”
this is actually impressive considering how busy this highway is, if it was limited to 5 or 6 lanes who know when will you reach out the station!
(+ you gota respect the station workers for their constant work, it's not easy to keep up your momentum checking hundred of cars, just for your buddy to switch with u for the night shift and do the same!)
If it was just 5 or 6 lanes by the time people get HALFWAY through they would have to turn around for the next Holiday and then repeat the cycle *forever.*
If it were 5 or 6 lanes people would actually get to their destination in time
No, it's just the widening to a toll gate; most of the road is 4 lanes or less as seen in 0:19.
just one more lane i promise thatll fix it
The most we have is 16 lanes in texas .
They have 50 lanes
jacki nav in Katy going towards Houston there’s 26 lanes
i was gonna say something about the sixteen lanes but then THIS DUDE mentioned the 26 LANES which is just...why
Edit: i just realized these comments are from two years ago.
@@skidmark9863looking it up, it's divided in sections so that makes more sense...was wondering how the hell and how awful it would be to have to get over that many lanes when you exit 😮.
Beautiful sight!!!
It used to take ages to pass from West Berlin through the corridor to West Germany. Sometimes people were held up for days. Not as long as at Dover for trucks going to the EU
very calming for some reason
Chinese used to ride bicycles, then got rich, and now THIS. It's just ghastly.
Imagine being in the right lane and you have to lane change to the far left
easy for asian drivers - they don't give af.
@@moaningpheromones 😅
They'll mathematics their way through it
You just go with the flow
This is really really really insane
in my city Sacramento we have 4 lanes
BLACKPINK X LISA okay sherlock 😂😂
Lol I'm from Sacramento too
I thought I-95 was bad
It isn't in most places... But yeah
This is like a dystopian nightmare
Ca 91 freeway: We have a ground breaking 6 lanes..!!!
China Interstate: LOL. hold my beer..
OK 1 year ago. I hope the hold my beer regurgitated joke dies soon. But what am I saying? This is YT. 15yrs of Carlos Mencias copying jokes. When that dies it will only be replaced by another.
dayum this beats la traffic by a lotttt
And all my vehicles are manual, goodbye clutch.
I would literally die of a panic attack!!
So never point your fingers on Chinese one-child policy any more!!!
I’m not kidding when I clicked on the video a ad played and it was about traffic
That's how ads work now, though. Finance ads before investment videos. Video services before YT how to videos. Masterclass before writing videos. I'd think it were funnier if you said the ad you got was for Prozac ;)
Still faster crossing than TJ to San Diego on a random Sunday
This makes the Katy freeway in Texas look like a country road
It is a 4 lane highway that extends to 25 lanes for the toll booths then reverts back to four lanes.
Gosh, where was I 6 years ago to miss this desperately interesting news?
Don’t interrupt your enemy when they’re making a mistake
Some ones car just dies and now it’s a 49 lane highway for 3 hrs.
Imagine having to change lane the chances of anyone letting you
The drone footage makes it look like the traffic is moving but nah, this was worse than the 405 highway on a very bad day 😮
wow
It was the longest traffic jam in history it lasted for 12 days
Fifty lanes merging into just four... What could go wrong ?
Imagine if all of them come back from holiday at the same time 😂😂
Atleast they are standing in line unlike India where there will be 4 lanes and they make it to 50 lanes 😂
Thats not a highway. Thats a RUNWAY!
It doesn't matter how many lanes you add, when you also don't add more toll booths.
50 ?? That’s huge Should widen to 100 next project
whoahhhh
"Bro we need to take the exit in a couple of miles"
"Aight lemme just switch 40 more lanes real quick"
Bro this is worst then the highway 401 in Canada, this is outrageous 💀
how tf does a drone records at 144p
2020 recommended baby
The problem is the toll station.
This is the border from TJ to the USA and it takes hours to cross
Took far less when my friend crossed the wall.
If only I had a magical dragon that could fly me across the city.
Wish dragon reference
Trains
And china have quite a lot of them
Plane
Sigh 😞 where thesetraffic jams came just like villvakkam subway in India
That's the best like/dislike ratio I've ever seen
where?
Really? They couldn’t have just stopped collecting tolls for the day? That’s honestly sickening
why would they stop it and lost money?
@@ernestogastelum9123 forego profits to relieve people of sheer misery seems like the correct moral choice to me.
50 freakin lanes! Never heard of such as wide as road.
imagine in the middle of lane, your stomach says I want to poop
Philippines in a nutshell
I wonder where they use bathroom maybe same place on the road,;
DOTs in the US and Canada be like "one more lane, bro, that'll fix traffic"
Simple answer, do not have toll booths at that time of year. However, if they were charging people to pass, they must have made one hell of a lot of money.
I can't believe this
I counted 28 lanes
That's in one direction...
its about 30 lanes, you probably missed a few because of the black cars
Nice touch with the spooky music. Very dystopian sounding. It’s toll plaza on a holiday weekend. Some people were delayed up to three hours. Not sure how this is different from the states? This happens every year on Cape Cod and at Hampton NH tolls. Also, China has built 30000 miles of high speed rail and counting
At least they got to their destination.. eventually.
Wheres gretna?
50 shades of lanes
A: where are you from?
B: oh. the high way.
A: yea i know, but how many kilometers in?
B: 4
A: wow, i'm from kilometer 7. you must be a few years older than me then big sis.
Why the hell are they still using a toll system requiring vehicles to stop!?!?
So for 100km, there wasn't an off ramp... Doesn't make sense
Imagine having to shit while u stuck in that💀
"Bro, Just let me build one more lane, i swear we're gonna fix traffic, just one more lane and make it bigger, make It bigger i swear bro it's gonna fix traffic, i swear i swear i swear i swear. it's going to fix traffic! It's going to fix traffic! *It's going to fix traffic* !"
"You know what would fix traffic? *Trains!* "
ah so that's why they build so many bullet trains
What they don’t teach Construction engineers: Common sense
Its not a highway, its a toll road.
Those people are probably suffering
Seems the problem is evident. No traffic after the tolls and all traffic before the tolls. Maybe remove the booths or at least wave people through when traffic gets backed up like that?
Imagine if you had to go to the bathroom....
It's not 50 lanes - it's just a toll booth. There are plenty of wide toll booths in other parts of the world, maybe not quite as wide as that one. The actual highway, as one can see, is only 4 lanes on each side.
But why?!
This rate is severe
What if you are low on Gas? Scary
I cant believe this exists
Imagine having diarrhea and getting up on this highway. 😩😩😩
Don’t forget that since this is a toll station, you have to pay once you endure the traffic
Coming soon to Katy, TX
This vs Houston