For much of that time, the jam stretched for dozens of kilometres. It stems from road construction in Beijing that won’t be finished until the middle of this month, according to one official.
AT its worst, bumper-to-bumper gridlock spanned 100km with cars moving little more than 1km a day. Fortunately, the situation has begun to improve significantly said Zhang Minghai, director of Zhangjiakou city’s Traffic Management Bureau general office. But he said he wasn’t sure when the situation along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou highway would return completely to normal.