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  • 2019-03-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Image Show a Traffic Jam on China's 50-Lane Highway? (en)
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  • A photograph of a large traffic jam is frequently shared on social media as if it showed China's 50 lane-highway with drivers attempting to merge down to just 4 lanes: This is a genuine photograph of a traffic jam in China. However, the caption frequently attached to this image is a bit misleading. This photograph was taken in October 2015 at the end of Golden Week, a week-long national holiday in China, and it captures heavy congestion at a toll gate on the G4 Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway: While this highway may expand to about 50 lanes at this toll booth — we counted the number of approximate car widths on a higher resolution version of this image and found that the 50-lane wide expression was generally accurate for this portion of the road — the G4 expressway is not a 50-lane highway. An aerial view from Google Maps shows that the G4 Expressway is typically a 4-lane highway. The road expands to the width of approximately 50 cars when it approaches the Zhuozhou Toll Gate, but before and after this toll checkpoint it is only a 4-lane road. It should also be noted that while this portion of road may be able to literally fit 50 cars across, this toll gate area appears to have only 25 official lanes. Here's an aerial view of the toll we stitched together from Google Maps. Note how both the the northbound and southbound portions of this highway are merely 4-lane roads after they leave the toll area: Here's another look at this ridiculous traffic jam from The People's Daily: (en)
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