If you think L.A Traffic is BAD

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  • August 25, 2010 at 3:04 am #4165
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    My Fellow Colleagues, Anita Chang (AP) wrote a great piece in the New York Times or another daily...my brain is mush as I am currently involved in a flavor of the month 3 day P.D. at S.D.U.S.D. She adresses some of the topics that Clayton addressed re: infrastructure supporting?/non-supporting economic growth in China. In one area, that she examined in this article is the lack of adequate roads, coupled with China superceding Japan in coal production This is a key piece in creating a 60 mile traffic that has stranded many for a week in roads leading to Tibet. This log jam is expected to last 3 weeks. Capitalism has a life as people are selling water for 10 yuan=1.50 U.S. ( 10 x the normal price ) when you look at the dta that suggests many Chinese live on 2.50 a day US$ this becomes a more profound issue. So the next time you are challeged by going from downtown to Pasedena....THINK!!
    TWC,
    Rand

    August 25, 2010 at 2:23 pm #23540
    Anonymous
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    Yeah Rand, I just read about that today! It's kind of like a semi-static, ultra slo-mo kinesthetic auto-age art competition from Humboldt County (They actually have one of those, yearly), yet according to what I’ve read, the great chinese traffic jam from the north has created a niche for people to service the drivers with food and drink for the trek from some booming coal town to in Inner Mongolia. Not to make fun, but the traffic jam is occuring due to bottle-necks as the highway workers make new lanes. One forecast has it bottled up until Sept. 21st.

    Possible headlines:
    "Agitated Slow-Fuse Waste with co2 " or "As The World Cooks", or “The New Nomads of the Inner-Mongolian to Beijing BlueTruck Express”, or “Aliens From Cephi Pass On The Water Planet’s New Kings of Economic Growth = Humanity’s Latest Greatest Success Story”
    Kelly

    August 27, 2010 at 4:28 am #23541
    Anonymous
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    DEAR COLLEAGUES & MR.HOOVER: To make matters worse, a reporter( Johnson) from the Guardian reported that there is a log jam of those on bicycles and motorbikes trying to solicit food water, hot water, noodles, pork and rice to those who are stranded. Another pressing issue is that people have been on the road so long without moving (2-3 days) that when it starts to move someone has to wake up 100-250 drivers so they can go 4 feet and then go back to sleep. There are a few giggle spots in this whole ordeal but I'm having difficulty bringing them to you at this time... but rest assured when they surface you will all be the first to know.
    TWC, Rand

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