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Yes, traffic congestion is a major problem in these cities with large population. Suppose you multiplied that by 10 or 20 or more!! Then you would have Beijing!!

Now, add a week-long "holiday" and everyone returning to work and you get this: Beijing traffic back up

50 lanes IN, half as many OUT, reported distance of the backup was five miles per CNBC this morning.

Dawn and I were in Beijing 30 years ago---no cars, several busses and mostly people walking, some with donkey carts pulling loads of wheat.

Things appear to have changed!!!!! Progress??:confused::confused::confused:
 
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ed4copies said:
Yes, traffic congestion is a major problem in these cities with large population. Suppose you multiplied that by 10 or 20 or more!! Then you would have Beijing!!

Now, add a week-long "holiday" and everyone returning to work and you get this: Beijing traffic back up

50 lanes IN, half as many OUT, reported distance of the backup was five miles per CNBC this morning.

Dawn and I were in Beijing 30 years ago---no cars, several busses and mostly people walking, some with donkey carts pulling loads of wheat.

Things appear to have changed!!!!! Progress??:confused::confused::confused:
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Gives new meaning to the term Chinese Fire drill....I guess we now need to say Chinese weekend.
 
Lived in the middle of that mess for 44 years. Now when folks in GA complain about traffic here, I just smile. In NYC, I could have hit my house with a baseball, but be 45 minutes away with traffic at 2 in the afternoon. Perspective means a lot.
 
TonyL said:
Lived in the middle of that mess for 44 years. Now when folks in GA complain about traffic here, I just smile. In NYC, I could have hit my house with a baseball, but be 45 minutes away with traffic at 2 in the afternoon. Perspective means a lot.
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I once spent a couple of months in mid-town Manhattan (Lexington Ave and 39th St) and paid to Park my Car and left it parked except when I went home a couple of weekends.
 
I see things like that and it always makes me think of my friend and client in Houston, Mr. Chan.
He came to America when he was 19, went to school at Harvard and became a very successful business man.... when I knew him he was already in his 70's... he shipped equipment to China to upgrade all of their electrical plants. His company was named Loyal American... and his favorite saying was not politically correct.... it was "Those F### Chinese, they don't know what they're doing, it just a F### fire drill over there.".... if you think of that in context, a little Chinese man with a heavy Chinese accent, it's hilarious.
 
I can hardly stand the 5 lanes of traffic in and around the Twin Cities. There are places in Fargo No Dakota that have 5 lanes.

And people wonder why I want to move to the country and get away from all this.
 
I've commuted over the dreaded 405 fwy in Southern California for years to various jobs and from a number of different homes. I think the longest commute I had was from Mission Viejo to Paramount which took up about 3 to 4.5 hours of my day (total). You either reach a state of complacence about it or you drive yourself nuts.

Fortunately, my current commute doesn't involve freeways. I just motor up Pacific Coast Hwy (PCH), from Huntington Harbour to San Pedro, which takes me past Seal Beach, Sunset Beach, Belmont Shores and Ocean Blvd in Long Beach, to my office on the harbor (surrounded on three sides by water that I view through nonstop windows all around me). I get stunning views of the sunrise over the estuary on my way in and sunsets over the pacific, with Catalina Island in the background, on my way home. In between I get the sound of barking seals and graceful ships gliding by right outside my window. That takes a lot of stress out of a day, I can tell you that.
 
Sandsini said:
I've commuted over the dreaded 405 fwy in Southern California for years to various jobs and from a number of different homes. I think the longest commute I had was from Mission Viejo to Paramount which took up about 3 to 4.5 hours of my day (total). You either reach a state of complacence about it or you drive yourself nuts.

Fortunately, my current commute doesn't involve freeways. I just motor up Pacific Coast Hwy (PCH), from Huntington Harbour to San Pedro, which takes me past Seal Beach, Sunset Beach, Belmont Shores and Ocean Blvd in Long Beach, to my office on the harbor (surrounded on three sides by water that I view through nonstop windows all around me). I get stunning views of the sunrise over the estuary on my way in and sunsets over the pacific, with Catalina Island in the background, on my way home. In between I get the sound of barking seals and graceful ships gliding by right outside my window. That takes a lot of stress out of a day, I can tell you that.
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I commuted the 405 from Huntington Beach to LAX back in 1965... wasn't a bad commute back then... about 45 or 50 minutes I think.... then moved to El Segundo across from the airport... still had about a 10-15 minute commute and I could see the airport from my apartment window.

After moving to Houston in 1980, my commute was 55 minutes from my house to the office... it was faster to go a back way and avoid the freeway altogether... it would usually take me 30 minutes to just get to the freeway. I was only driving 28 miles.
 
MesquiteMan said:
My commute to work really sucks. It is about 100' of walking from the house to the shop. During that commute, I have to dodge dog crap on occasion. My afternoon commute involves dodging chickens!
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Yours is almost as good as mine - I do 13 steps to the basemen, and since my dogs are trained to crap on their walk not in the house, I don't worry about stepping in anything.....Now and then I have to walk about 100 feet round trip when I help my mail carrier get the packages from my porch to the postal truck. At mi career job I commuted 13 miles which took about 22 minutes most days, a little longer when there was fog or bad roads.
 
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