I'm from Chicago. For a week straight we were warned about the blizzard and to stay home. The people stuck on lakeshore were people who ignored the warnings. Those stuck in Chicago were highly criticized by needlessly putting rescue workers at risk.
Simon you mentioned that Tokyo is one of the best planned cities which made me curious about the most well planned cities. I'd watch that episode for sure!
Melbourne has, or had, the potential to be one of the best designed in terms of road infrastructure. Naturally successive governments failed to capitalise on that potential, so our traffic and public transport suck.
You didn't go into enough detail about what people did to cope with sitting in their vehicle for days. How did they get food and water? How did they go to the bathroom? What happened when they ran out of gas? How many just abandoned their vehicles?
I was curious about this too, but it wasn't really the point of the video, I think. It'd be easy to get bogged down on any subject with details and make endlessly long videos.
Came to the comments to see if I wasn't the only one who felt the same way. Without those perspectives to give context to the information it loses a lot of its value. Like what does a 5 day traffic jam even mean for the people involved in it?
it is a top 10 video not a "Today I found out" or any of this other channels. He picks facts , does a short intro on an entry and moves to the next one. If you want a detailed video on them then suggest it and he will probably do it on one of his channels that fits better for what you ask.
I remember the 2016 "Brexit" gridlock from the news. It was caused by a multitude of factors: - Slow payment at the exit, as electronic payment method haven't been fully mandatory - Large presence of peddlers (to a point where Indonesians consider it a "market") - The existence of a traffic light just down the road from the off-ramp - The sheer hype of the recently opened Trans-Java motorway network. It was opened in 2015 and during the gridlock, the Brebes exit was just recently opened By 2017, the gridlock was largely gone, thanks to extension of the motorway network and mandatory usage of electronic prepaid cards for tolls.
I have been a delivery driver for various companies over the years. Any time I was able to get a heads up about a bad traffic jam I would do whatever it took to avoid it. There were times I took two lane roads way around it just to keep moving. In some instances I don't doubt it took me longer to get back to the shop taking the route I did, rather than just waiting out the traffic jam, but at least I was moving.
In the late 1980's I was with my family and we got stuck on the Whiskey Bay bridge that's 19miles long. There was a bad wreck and we had to sit on the bridge for 18hrs. No bathroom other then sitting and hanging your butt off the side of the bridge. We were hungry like nobody can believe and when we finally got to start moving again. The McDonald's at the next town closed the doors due to everyone wanting to eat and use the bathroom. I might have been 12yrs old at the time. I remember watching all the grown ups playing cards on the hood of our station wagon. Lol. Since then they have put turn arounds all the way down that bridge to get people off of it.
The Washington DC Capital Beltway traffic jam of 2016. Ten hours stuck in traffic for less than an inch of snow. The surrounding states were expecting big snow on the weekend, so they didn't de-ice the roads for a small flurry in the middle of the week. It caused the off ramps to ice up and cars couldn't exit the interstate. They would just slide off into the ditch.
The hurricane rita traffic jam in 2005 was way worse than half of these. Over 100 people died on the road during the evacuation. 24 elderly people were killed when their bus overheated and caught fire sitting in traffic. 2.5 million people left the Houston area at the same time.
And that was all 4 major interstate highways going north and west from Houston. All were gridlocked. People were panicked because hurricane Katrina had only been a few weeks earlier. Rita was projected to hit the Houston area as a cat5. Came in as a cat3 and didn't even hit us. I stayed home since I was just north of Houston and I lived in a 2nd story apt. Evacuations became much more organized after that.
@@EmptyWoods I had two broken legs and was wheelchair bound. I knew all the country backroads to get us to ft worth in 6 hours from Houston. We avoided major highways.
I thought it was hilarious when Atlanta got 2 inches of snow and shut down the whole city a couple of years ago 😂. Thousands stuck in traffic from a dusting of snow
There was a lot more to it than that. The leadership in the city held everyone till the last minute then told everyone to go. I was in a skyscraper in Atlanta at the time. Looking out the window they realized it was a lot worse than they anticipated and was further north into the city. Even if it had not snowed with hundreds of thousands of not over a million leaving literally at the same time there still would have been citywide traffic jams without the snow. It was far more than two inches and once everyone got gridlocked, their cars were iced in.
This happens all across the South. Even the prediction of snow will shut a major city down. In a place that does not normally snow, they don’t have snow logistics, infrastructure, etc. I never saw a snow tire in my life until I moved to D.C. for college. We don’t have hundreds of sand trucks on standby. (It “snows” here in Houston about once a decade, so most of those trucks would rot away before they get used again.) Motorists here have never learned how to drive on a frozen road. The list goes on. It’s better to tell people to stay home and nothing happen than to keep millions of people on the roads with folks skidding on freeways and overpasses. I’d imagine a similar thing would happen if folks in Wyoming or Wisconsin suddenly had to prep for a hurricane. Generally speaking, cities are most prepared for the weather events they experience the most.
I lived through it but learned to drive in the north. I had never been in anything nearly as challenging as that storm. It wasn't a "dusting" and the temperature dropped very quickly. The roads froze over and all the trucks just stopped on the highway rather than risk the dangerous conditions. For those unfamiliar with I285, it's effectively the corridor for nearly all shipping going up and down the east coast. Trucks aren't permitted to run through the city unless they have deliveries there. So we had our entire city's perimeter covered in ice with hundreds of big trucks stopped like a parking lot. If you were lucky enough to be able to drive through the conditions, you'd have to cross your fingers that whatever lane you were in had a small gap between trucks that you could maneuver through. Couple all that with the fact that there are no snow plows, no salt spreaders, and a general lack of knowledge by most people on how to handle snow and ice, not to mention that our cars aren't equipped for winter weather (no snow tires, chains, or even scrapers and brushes to clear off the cars), and you get one horrible situation to be stuck in. What made it even more dangerous was that we generally don't have the proper attire or emergency provisions. When I was young, my mother always had a blanket in the car, along with emergency food and water in the event we were ever stranded in the snow and ran out of gas. No one down here has their car outfitted for such a scenario. Many people ran out of gas, locked their cars on the highway, and walked to the nearest exit to find shelter. I was lucky enough to be pretty well stocked in my car and years of experience with crap weather. I took to the back roads and made my 30-45 minute commute home in only 8 hours that night. I can understand how silly it might look to other regions, since I've lived through both situations. But it's really not so cut and dry. I have to take a similar stance explaining to people down here why heat waves kill people up north. They often don't realize central AC isn't always built into northern homes. It wouldn't occur to them that there may be a situation where it could get to 100 degrees and not have central AC.
It got compounded - enough people forgot to turn off their engines after they weren't moving and run out of gas which meant that those behind them with gas couldn't go. Note that the low was merely in the 20s and so simply being in a car instead of in the elements was enough to survive.
In Southern California, on the average work day, commuters travel up to 60+ miles from the inland valleys into Los Angeles (areas,) and then back out again at day's end. What should take less than an hour drive, nearly always is at minimal double that amount of time. I won't compare this to anything on the list mentioned in the video, I just think it's insane how much time people are actually willing to be in their cars among so many other (plenty of reckless) drivers on such a regular bases. I had to be in that madness many times, but no way would I want to make that commute on a daily bases.
My typical comute in the morning is about 45 minutes, then on my way home with traffic is generally an hour and a half to 2 hours depending on the location in the summer. I'm in Minnesota. Winter time I can not predict the traffic times if it snowed in the past couple days.
@@Deerhunterjs fortunately, Southern California drivers don't typically have to deal with snow, unless living in mountain areas. However, when it rains... Let's just say it pours. 😉😜😥
@@thedarkdragon1437 It's cost of housing in the areas where they work. "Drive until you qualify" ... but in this case even if renting you also had to drive in a long way to find something you could afford. And indeed one of the many factors for people wanting to leave California is the commute times.
You missed the Hurricane Rita evacuation of 2005. More than 2 million people tried to leave Houston at the same time. Living in a low area we had to leave. I took me 10 hours to make a drive that usually took less than 2. More than a 100 people died on freeways that were at a standstill totaled gridlocked.
@1:13: My family was stationed in West Germany in November 1989 when the Berlin Wall, and as a travel ban was issued before the Berlin Wall fell, we cancelled a planned family trip that week. I don't know if the military was expecting something more sinister than a traffic jam, but it was pretty amazing to be in Germany at that time. After everything died down a bit, we went to Berlin, and I can't overstate how different it was going there before and after the wall came down. I was a very young kid at the time, but as an adult, I understand what a monumental time and place I was in at the time.
I got stuck in a traffic jam south of Portland, OR for 2 hours one time. Once everyone figured out they weren't going anywhere soon they turned off their engines, got out of their cars, and socialized. I cannot imagine being stuck in any of these nightmares.
He forgot the huge 12-plus hour traffic jam on capitol beltway back in '99 when the guy tried to jump off the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on I-95/495; They shut down the entire bridge while MD, VA and DC tried to figure out WHO had jurisdiction over getting the guy (safely) off the bridge. I just remember being thankful I lived & worked in Arlington/Alexandria at the time where I could take back roads to avoid the mess! I think he finally jumped into the Potomac River late that night after some agency pelted him with a few bean bags (from a bean-bag gun?).
Yes, more people died trying to evacuate than the actual hurricane. 2.5 million evacuees on the road. I'm quite surprised this one did not make the list.
Spent about 8 hours outside Idaho Spring(Colorado) on I-70 when a accident closed it, and most of the other roads were under construction, or blocked by a rockslide. Walked over and ate at the same Burger King twice, as well as 2 additional bathroom breaks there. At least the weather was nice in summer.
I think pretty much in big cities especially in developing countries. What I seen in Jakarta, Manila, Kl, bkk etc is amazing. However a traffic jam of only motorbikes in HCMC is a sight to be hold.
The larger portion of Atlanta drivers can't keep from having fender fights in sunny and dry weather. When the first snowflake or raindrop falls, driving ability goes out the window.
A friend of mine got out of school for an entire week over that snowfall, and laughed about all the people too stupid to drive in an inch of snow, basically every person from the north who lived in Georgia were laughing their asses off.
@@gerwulf4740 yep, I'm sure they were laughing. I was working in the traffic division of a metro Atlanta sheriff's office during all of that. It was ridiculous.
Ah, yes, Snowmageddon. One of the reasons it was so bad is that all of the school districts cancelled classes at the same time, causing all of the parents in metro Atlanta to leave and get their kids. A lot didn’t make it and the kids ended up spending the night at school with teachers. Lots of people were abandoning their cars and strangers were opening their houses to them. It was crazy. Only to be followed a few weeks later by the Snopocalypse.
That was the one from about 8 years ago right? With the impending storm people flocked to the roads to get home just to get stuck with an inch of snow. Sat there for hours I heard. A week or two later where I lived (in Raleigh, NC) we were warned about a lot of snow heading our way and I was working as an RT in the hospital. My boss said I could leave early but not until 5pm. It was snowing heavily at lunch time and my boss left work early but made me stay even though there was barely anything to do. The roads in Raleigh got bottlenecked JUST LIKE ATLANTA a couple of weeks before. No one learned anything from it apparently. We had accidents galore and even a jam in the snow with a car on fire made the news (people made a meme out of that photo like the Pillsbury Dough Boy attacking Raleigh and setting the car on fire 😂). I left at 5pm and there was no heavy traffic but the snow was very deep and cars were all over the side of the road from earlier when they got stuck or in an accident. I barely saw any plow trucks on the long way home. Took about an hour and a half for a usually 20 minute drive. It wasn’t fun at all!
Back around 2007 in Pennsylvania there were two separate jams, interstate 78 west of Allentown and 81 near Scranton. PennDOT decided it was best not to plow until the nor'easter was almost over. Eventually semis couldn't push through and got stuck, blocking the roads. Cars and trucks started running out of fuel by the end of the first day so the National Gaurd was called in to evacuate them on the second day. 78 was opened on the third or fourth day and 81 on the fourth or fifth day. It wasn't even that bad of a storm. It was just complete negligence by the governor and PennDOT.
Great video! You forgot the entrance to the annual Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City Nevada. 10 lanes of vehicles coming off of a 2 lane road with wait times approaching 12 hours. Great fun!
Shoutout to all of the Chicagoans stuck in Snowpocalypse that year. I remember taking the L downtown from Edgewater the day after all of the snow fell and being mesmerized by just how much snow had piled up overnight.
Grateful Dead when they played in at Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine, 1988. At 4am the morning before the show, traffic was already backed all the way down the 20 mile single lane road into the town, onto the highway, and several miles before the exit.
Seattle has had some occasional doozies with traffic jams lasting hours. In instance, I think due to an accident on I-5, traffic stopped completely for several hours. It was during lunch hours so a taco truck stuck in the jam decided to open shop and served tacos to the people also stuck there. Tastiest traffic jam in history.
Yay 2011 I was in that storm, well in the suburbs though, driving back from walmart down the str4eet to my house in the middle of a blizzard lol Obviously I survived like a LEGEND
Longest jam that I remember having to sit through was about 3 or 4 hours on the last few kilometres to a metal festival. Could have been a lot worse; hundreds of metalhead looking forward to celebrating, blasting music, drinking beer and having fun when the line didn't move. All went smoothly, it just was a hot day.
I'm surprised the Hurricane Rita evacuation didn't make the list. There were at least 30 people who died during the evacuation of the Houston area. A traffic jam along I-10 stretched from Houston to West and North of San Antonio as well as another on I-45 to Dallas in which 12 elderly nursing home residents died when the bus carrying them caught fire.
The worst traffic jam I was in was when I was being driven from New York to Maryland less than 2 weeks after a major brain surgery. There was a sink hole on the Jersey Turnpike that turned what should have been a 4-5 hour trip to a 10 hour trip. I couldn’t even put my head against the head rest without major pain.
I knew Indonesia was going to be on the list. In October 2017 the president got stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour on the way to a military ceremony. Finally the president decided to walk the remaining two kilometers in the scorching afternoon heat. He then decided to move the capital to the island of Borneo. I personally won't go to Jakarta unless it's a matter of life and death because of the insane traffic congestion.
I had a couple of friends that got caught in the jam in Chicago 2011. They were stuck in their car for almost 3 days and literally almost froze to death. A couple of their family members went out to find them when they found out. They had to walk the last 10 miles or so to get to them. And actually found them before EMS could even get to them
Back in 2013 I lived about 50 miles of D.C. and one day, it took those i knew(about a dozen ppl, different cars) working in the Capitol an average of 10 hours to get home. Because it took so long, those who left early....before it got too bad....got home just in time to shower, and get back in the car to return to D.C. Because theres basically one road between where I lived and D.C., people had been continuously turning around to go back to D.C. so when my dozen friends went to return to D.C. the following day, plus some construction, their following jam was about 4 hours long. There were a few that admitted to me some pretty strange things they did to stay awake.
Does anyone remember 2006 when the snow in Seattle hit as Monday Night football stated and after the game so many people were stuck on I-5? Many people abandoned their cars in the middle of the freeway. If you looked at the traffic cameras that night at 2am it still looked like a 5pm traffic jam but nobody was in the cars.
How do you not have the ice storm traffic jam in Atlanta on this list? It literally closed every road in the city leaving cars stranded on the roads for a week.
5 hours is the longest I been in. California altamonte into the bay a couple years back. Vehicle Fire on highway. Truck got stuck on the backroad 1 Backroad 2 was stop and go
You didn’t mention the huge traffic jam in Turin Italy in 1969. Apparently the computer code controlling all of the traffic lights was corrupted causing all of the lights to change randomly. This occurred on a day when a football match was also being played against England. Cars we stuck throughout the city, honking their horns and vans full of English fans added to the crush. The only cars that seemed to be moving were a few Police cars pressing their way through the traffic and three Austin Mini Coopers darting about between, through and over the buildings.
In 2005 during the Rita evacuation it took a friend of mine and his family 26 hours to get to a town thats normally 2 hours away. I went to the store got a 18 pack, then went home and crossed my fingers. Luckily it barely ended up raining that time. Harvey was a bit different though.
You forgot the Hurricane Rita evacuation of Houston in 2005. Immediately after Katrina, what was a category 5 storm was aimed at Houston. People freaked out and started leaving. Reportedly drive times to Dallas were between 24 and 36 hours. About 3 million people left. It's a measure of how traumatic Katrina was for people who hadn't even been through it. And the hurricane hit 100 miles to the east of Houston.
Some of these look like Wash., DC when there is a 10% chance of snow. A commuter called in a local radio station during a snow event: “I’m just sitting out here on the Beltway watching all the flakes. And it’s snowing, too.” This is no 💩. I heard it that morning on my way to a client site.
I just laughed so hard when you mentioned são paulo, the past weekend me and my mom actually spent 10 hours in traffic trying to get to our city, in a trajectory that usually takes no more than 2 hours, all of that because it was a nice sunny weekend and the people of metropolitan são paulo rushed to the beaches as they always do, causing chaos in the beach cities and making everything worse for its citizens, I'm actually from a beach city that on new year, the city simply does not work due to the number of paulistas (people who live in são paulo) here.
Yeesh, I can't imagine jams like this. My area only gets three traffic jams per year, all on the same day: July 4. There's the jam trying to get to the area where the Independence Day parade is held, the jam of people trying to get home after the parade ends, and the jam of people going home at night after the local rodeo is finished (and the municipal fireworks that accompany it).
I was on my way to the Baltimore comic con 2019, Google said it was a 20 minute delay, turned out to be about 2hrs. Simply because I missed 2hrs of comic con makes this number 11 if the list had been longer.
The traffic jam in Mumbai city due to flooding in 1996 lasted almost a week, Surprised you have no mention of that as compared to the 12 and 15 hour jams shown.
Longest traffic jam I've been in early to mid 00s a few nights before Christmas on I-24 Southbound near Clarksville - that area had been hit by an ice storm the previous night and still had issues from it. I ended up completely stuck due to an accident from about 10 PM until about 3 AM. (After an hour, I fell asleep while waiting and someone had to knock on my car door to wake me up.) My mom said that it had made the news and had backed up into Kentucky and cleared shortly after local sunrise.
2:36 Can we talk about how 6 people are sitting on that cars trunk. Modern day sedans could never have that many people. Even having 4 people sitting across.
I hated traveling I-95 when we used to road trip to Florida to visit my grandparents (we were a family of 5, it was cheaper). Especially once you hit the Baltimore exit(s) and the DC exit(s). I remember one time being caught in traffic for about 2 hours on the...495 or 695 (I can't remember which one). Not fun when we were trying to reach Rocky Mount, North Carolina to stop for the night.
@@xxibjrosek Yes, that is a bad area I 495/ I 95/ I 395 the Capital Beltway is a nightmare. I sat in regular rush hour traffic many times trying to go from Woodbridge VA to Laurel MD I was commuting to work in VA for two years as my wife was finishing a Degree at U of MD The bad one was US 17 exit at Fredericksburg to Stafford VA we got off there found out an 18 wheeler was cut off and hit by a car and spilled a load. Between Lifeflighting, clearing the wreckage and clearing the lanes nothing moved for hours. We were allowed after a long time to go down the shoulder. We had just got on I 95 about when it happened and I think it took 8 or 9 hours to reopen all lanes.
Not quite top-ten material, but I was on the M25 one Friday afternoon in 1997 when the traffic backed up so far that the entire clockwise carriageway became a 117-mile traffic jam for the first time in the history of the M25. I expect it has done this again dozens of times since 1997...
Bright an early (US time), got my playlist loaded (All Simon, all the time) and plenty of house work to do! Time to remind myself of another reason I live in the country, traffic. 😂
lol that's my mom's cousin sitting on the back of the car playing guitar in the woodstock traffic jam, the photo was in life magazine and i believe he was 16. he was also a contestant on jeopardy once. he died in 2014 and i never met him but definitely seemed like an interesting guy
Was in a long traffic jam on the A1 (motorway section) in Yorkshire UK in the mid 90's, we were touring in our circus bus so got out and entertained some of the other trapped drivers, its the only time i have unicycled, eaten fire and diaboloed on a motorway. My wife cooked a roast dinner which we ate ouside the bus with a table and chairs to the annoyance of everyone who could see us.
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5:45 _Unless you're looking at the largest cities the country is devoid of traffic problems_ Literally every Russian city with over 100000 people: 👁️👄👁️ Source: I am Russian LOL
I'm sorry, but you missed Kasangula: 5 countries ( Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe) meet at the 200m wide Zambezi river. About 2000km south is Johannesburg, and various port cities all providing supplies to many African nations, especially mining. There is no bridge over the river there, Zimbabwe has failed, crumbling her transport infrastructure, and corrupting her police. Kasangula is therefore the best option for trucks. There is only one ferryboat, and it can only take 1 22m truck at a time. Fresh goods and people take priority, meaning the trucks typically wait 2 weeks to cross. Just think what this tactic jam does for the African economy. I hope Simon reads this.
I was in a traffic jam in 2017 in Brisbane Australia it lasted 18 hours or something ridiculous it’s was due to an acid explosion that also melted the part of the motorway
Texan here who actually does know how to merge. Got to remember, texas is technically it's own world and therefore does have its laws. Also, with the way lower cost of living here, great weather, and excellent bbq - you do have to come to the conclusion that most who don't know how to merge are actually transplants(may have Texas plates, but is actually from another state) such bringing the absurd road rage of new york city, the stoned off their butt drivers of los Angeles, and the wannabe breaking bad tweeked out drivers of....a trailer park(these idiots come from everywhere) do contribute to the quickly changing traffic issues. Oh, and TXDOT. We all know their timelines for finishing work. Example - 2 mile stretch of road to be repaved - started in 1998 Estimated finish time: 8 months Actual finishing time - 2012 and still incomplete!
Every city I've lived near has the same traffic jams every day and night. And I've always wondered why do people deal with it daily. I would move or quit life's to short
So it in 2015 there was a jam in ky due to 2 ft of snow when some people were stuck for up to 6 days because they ran out of fuel. Official it was cleared in 24 hours but that was only around Louisville
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I'm from Chicago. For a week straight we were warned about the blizzard and to stay home. The people stuck on lakeshore were people who ignored the warnings. Those stuck in Chicago were highly criticized by needlessly putting rescue workers at risk.
Yep, I worked in Lakeview at the time and took the day off, thank heavens.
That was my freshman year of college in Chicago...and I had moved there from California. Needless to say, it was not a great week.
I hope I never step in Shitgago again, if I can avoid it.
@@Shadow__133 I feel the same way about detroit
Simon you mentioned that Tokyo is one of the best planned cities which made me curious about the most well planned cities. I'd watch that episode for sure!
then Houston is one of the worst planned. Only a slum in India could compete with Houston for overpopulation+bad design
@@SlashinatorZ I gotta say the freeway systems in Houston are amazing compared to other places I've lived. This is why we need the video lol
Melbourne has, or had, the potential to be one of the best designed in terms of road infrastructure. Naturally successive governments failed to capitalise on that potential, so our traffic and public transport suck.
But one cool thing about Houston is how you can walk underground
@@Unknowngfyjoh what you mean?
After watching this I immediately ordered an emergency blanket to keep in my car, lol...had been meaning to
Throw a first aid kit and some water/protein bars too.
Never hurts to be prepared.
@StellarClick Having water (or any other non-alcoholic drink) is much more important than food.
You didn't go into enough detail about what people did to cope with sitting in their vehicle for days. How did they get food and water? How did they go to the bathroom? What happened when they ran out of gas? How many just abandoned their vehicles?
My car sat in a snow storm in Buffalo NY for about 48 hours. I spent the first 4 or 5 at the car and then stayed in a local church.
Yeah kinda feel like this video was a bit rushed.
I was curious about this too, but it wasn't really the point of the video, I think. It'd be easy to get bogged down on any subject with details and make endlessly long videos.
Came to the comments to see if I wasn't the only one who felt the same way. Without those perspectives to give context to the information it loses a lot of its value. Like what does a 5 day traffic jam even mean for the people involved in it?
it is a top 10 video not a "Today I found out" or any of this other channels. He picks facts , does a short intro on an entry and moves to the next one. If you want a detailed video on them then suggest it and he will probably do it on one of his channels that fits better for what you ask.
I was in Chicago in that snowstorm. Crazy storm .
I remember the 2016 "Brexit" gridlock from the news. It was caused by a multitude of factors:
- Slow payment at the exit, as electronic payment method haven't been fully mandatory
- Large presence of peddlers (to a point where Indonesians consider it a "market")
- The existence of a traffic light just down the road from the off-ramp
- The sheer hype of the recently opened Trans-Java motorway network. It was opened in 2015 and during the gridlock, the Brebes exit was just recently opened
By 2017, the gridlock was largely gone, thanks to extension of the motorway network and mandatory usage of electronic prepaid cards for tolls.
I have no patience. Sitting in traffic annoys me past all reason. I would have lost my effing mind plus peed my pants sitting in these clogs.
I have been a delivery driver for various companies over the years. Any time I was able to get a heads up about a bad traffic jam I would do whatever it took to avoid it. There were times I took two lane roads way around it just to keep moving. In some instances I don't doubt it took me longer to get back to the shop taking the route I did, rather than just waiting out the traffic jam, but at least I was moving.
Imagine all the turds on the side of the road after some of these...
I will not.
In the late 1980's I was with my family and we got stuck on the Whiskey Bay bridge that's 19miles long. There was a bad wreck and we had to sit on the bridge for 18hrs. No bathroom other then sitting and hanging your butt off the side of the bridge. We were hungry like nobody can believe and when we finally got to start moving again. The McDonald's at the next town closed the doors due to everyone wanting to eat and use the bathroom. I might have been 12yrs old at the time. I remember watching all the grown ups playing cards on the hood of our station wagon. Lol. Since then they have put turn arounds all the way down that bridge to get people off of it.
Wow in 18 hours you could have flown from the US to Asia! That’s wild
As a Marylander, I'm surprised you didn't mention the regular 13 mile back ups we deal with at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge during the summer months.
P.S, the shots of a 'Chinese' traffic jam are actually from Thailand.
Exactly
Allegedly
@@natesuth7742 04:58, Bangkok license plates, tuk tuks, BMTA buses
oof
China is not known for sharing many images from inside the country.
The Washington DC Capital Beltway traffic jam of 2016. Ten hours stuck in traffic for less than an inch of snow. The surrounding states were expecting big snow on the weekend, so they didn't de-ice the roads for a small flurry in the middle of the week. It caused the off ramps to ice up and cars couldn't exit the interstate. They would just slide off into the ditch.
The hurricane rita traffic jam in 2005 was way worse than half of these. Over 100 people died on the road during the evacuation. 24 elderly people were killed when their bus overheated and caught fire sitting in traffic. 2.5 million people left the Houston area at the same time.
And that was all 4 major interstate highways going north and west from Houston. All were gridlocked. People were panicked because hurricane Katrina had only been a few weeks earlier. Rita was projected to hit the Houston area as a cat5. Came in as a cat3 and didn't even hit us. I stayed home since I was just north of Houston and I lived in a 2nd story apt. Evacuations became much more organized after that.
@@EmptyWoods I had two broken legs and was wheelchair bound. I knew all the country backroads to get us to ft worth in 6 hours from Houston. We avoided major highways.
I thought it was hilarious when Atlanta got 2 inches of snow and shut down the whole city a couple of years ago 😂. Thousands stuck in traffic from a dusting of snow
There was a lot more to it than that. The leadership in the city held everyone till the last minute then told everyone to go. I was in a skyscraper in Atlanta at the time. Looking out the window they realized it was a lot worse than they anticipated and was further north into the city. Even if it had not snowed with hundreds of thousands of not over a million leaving literally at the same time there still would have been citywide traffic jams without the snow. It was far more than two inches and once everyone got gridlocked, their cars were iced in.
I’m from California. A drop of rain can cause a standstill around here. I’m not that surprised really
This happens all across the South. Even the prediction of snow will shut a major city down. In a place that does not normally snow, they don’t have snow logistics, infrastructure, etc. I never saw a snow tire in my life until I moved to D.C. for college. We don’t have hundreds of sand trucks on standby. (It “snows” here in Houston about once a decade, so most of those trucks would rot away before they get used again.) Motorists here have never learned how to drive on a frozen road. The list goes on. It’s better to tell people to stay home and nothing happen than to keep millions of people on the roads with folks skidding on freeways and overpasses. I’d imagine a similar thing would happen if folks in Wyoming or Wisconsin suddenly had to prep for a hurricane. Generally speaking, cities are most prepared for the weather events they experience the most.
I lived through it but learned to drive in the north. I had never been in anything nearly as challenging as that storm. It wasn't a "dusting" and the temperature dropped very quickly. The roads froze over and all the trucks just stopped on the highway rather than risk the dangerous conditions. For those unfamiliar with I285, it's effectively the corridor for nearly all shipping going up and down the east coast. Trucks aren't permitted to run through the city unless they have deliveries there. So we had our entire city's perimeter covered in ice with hundreds of big trucks stopped like a parking lot. If you were lucky enough to be able to drive through the conditions, you'd have to cross your fingers that whatever lane you were in had a small gap between trucks that you could maneuver through. Couple all that with the fact that there are no snow plows, no salt spreaders, and a general lack of knowledge by most people on how to handle snow and ice, not to mention that our cars aren't equipped for winter weather (no snow tires, chains, or even scrapers and brushes to clear off the cars), and you get one horrible situation to be stuck in. What made it even more dangerous was that we generally don't have the proper attire or emergency provisions. When I was young, my mother always had a blanket in the car, along with emergency food and water in the event we were ever stranded in the snow and ran out of gas. No one down here has their car outfitted for such a scenario. Many people ran out of gas, locked their cars on the highway, and walked to the nearest exit to find shelter. I was lucky enough to be pretty well stocked in my car and years of experience with crap weather. I took to the back roads and made my 30-45 minute commute home in only 8 hours that night. I can understand how silly it might look to other regions, since I've lived through both situations. But it's really not so cut and dry. I have to take a similar stance explaining to people down here why heat waves kill people up north. They often don't realize central AC isn't always built into northern homes. It wouldn't occur to them that there may be a situation where it could get to 100 degrees and not have central AC.
It got compounded - enough people forgot to turn off their engines after they weren't moving and run out of gas which meant that those behind them with gas couldn't go. Note that the low was merely in the 20s and so simply being in a car instead of in the elements was enough to survive.
“I’ll be home in 5 months”
In Southern California, on the average work day, commuters travel up to 60+ miles from the inland valleys into Los Angeles (areas,) and then back out again at day's end. What should take less than an hour drive, nearly always is at minimal double that amount of time. I won't compare this to anything on the list mentioned in the video, I just think it's insane how much time people are actually willing to be in their cars among so many other (plenty of reckless) drivers on such a regular bases. I had to be in that madness many times, but no way would I want to make that commute on a daily bases.
the problem isn't so much in the jams itself but in why most of these are occuring
My typical comute in the morning is about 45 minutes, then on my way home with traffic is generally an hour and a half to 2 hours depending on the location in the summer. I'm in Minnesota. Winter time I can not predict the traffic times if it snowed in the past couple days.
@@Deerhunterjs fortunately, Southern California drivers don't typically have to deal with snow, unless living in mountain areas. However, when it rains... Let's just say it pours. 😉😜😥
@@thedarkdragon1437 It's cost of housing in the areas where they work. "Drive until you qualify" ... but in this case even if renting you also had to drive in a long way to find something you could afford. And indeed one of the many factors for people wanting to leave California is the commute times.
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At 3:48 it is not _Britain's proposed exit from the EU_ it is _Britain's exit from the EU._
There is no 'proposal' about it.
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You missed the Hurricane Rita evacuation of 2005. More than 2 million people tried to leave Houston at the same time. Living in a low area we had to leave. I took me 10 hours to make a drive that usually took less than 2. More than a 100 people died on freeways that were at a standstill totaled gridlocked.
"By the time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong"
Did you go? What was it like?
@@angela1serenity it's a line from the Joni Mitchell song.
@@sandybarnes887 oh! Thanks 😊
@@angela1serenity you've probably heard the Crosby Stills Nash and Young version. Joni wrote it for them as she was dating one of them at the time.
@1:13: My family was stationed in West Germany in November 1989 when the Berlin Wall, and as a travel ban was issued before the Berlin Wall fell, we cancelled a planned family trip that week. I don't know if the military was expecting something more sinister than a traffic jam, but it was pretty amazing to be in Germany at that time. After everything died down a bit, we went to Berlin, and I can't overstate how different it was going there before and after the wall came down. I was a very young kid at the time, but as an adult, I understand what a monumental time and place I was in at the time.
I got stuck in a traffic jam south of Portland, OR for 2 hours one time. Once everyone figured out they weren't going anywhere soon they turned off their engines, got out of their cars, and socialized. I cannot imagine being stuck in any of these nightmares.
The 401 in Toronto didn't make the list?
*visible confusion*
I never thought I needed to know about traffic jams. Touché Simon. Touché.
The hardest working people on TH-cam Idk how u guys keep up with all the channels but keep it goin!!
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He forgot the huge 12-plus hour traffic jam on capitol beltway back in '99 when the guy tried to jump off the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on I-95/495; They shut down the entire bridge while MD, VA and DC tried to figure out WHO had jurisdiction over getting the guy (safely) off the bridge. I just remember being thankful I lived & worked in Arlington/Alexandria at the time where I could take back roads to avoid the mess! I think he finally jumped into the Potomac River late that night after some agency pelted him with a few bean bags (from a bean-bag gun?).
Hurricane Rita, Houston,Texas. Some people who tried to leave the city went 18 miles in 20 hours. Turned around and was home in 20 minutes.
Yes, more people died trying to evacuate than the actual hurricane. 2.5 million evacuees on the road. I'm quite surprised this one did not make the list.
Spent about 8 hours outside Idaho Spring(Colorado) on I-70 when a accident closed it, and most of the other roads were under construction, or blocked by a rockslide. Walked over and ate at the same Burger King twice, as well as 2 additional bathroom breaks there. At least the weather was nice in summer.
I think pretty much in big cities especially in developing countries. What I seen in Jakarta, Manila, Kl, bkk etc is amazing. However a traffic jam of only motorbikes in HCMC is a sight to be hold.
I sure hope to see the Atlanta traffic jam where an inch of snow had people abandoning and sleeping in cars on the ridiculously huge highways.
The larger portion of Atlanta drivers can't keep from having fender fights in sunny and dry weather. When the first snowflake or raindrop falls, driving ability goes out the window.
A friend of mine got out of school for an entire week over that snowfall, and laughed about all the people too stupid to drive in an inch of snow, basically every person from the north who lived in Georgia were laughing their asses off.
@@gerwulf4740 yep, I'm sure they were laughing. I was working in the traffic division of a metro Atlanta sheriff's office during all of that. It was ridiculous.
Ah, yes, Snowmageddon. One of the reasons it was so bad is that all of the school districts cancelled classes at the same time, causing all of the parents in metro Atlanta to leave and get their kids. A lot didn’t make it and the kids ended up spending the night at school with teachers. Lots of people were abandoning their cars and strangers were opening their houses to them. It was crazy. Only to be followed a few weeks later by the Snopocalypse.
That was the one from about 8 years ago right? With the impending storm people flocked to the roads to get home just to get stuck with an inch of snow. Sat there for hours I heard. A week or two later where I lived (in Raleigh, NC) we were warned about a lot of snow heading our way and I was working as an RT in the hospital. My boss said I could leave early but not until 5pm. It was snowing heavily at lunch time and my boss left work early but made me stay even though there was barely anything to do. The roads in Raleigh got bottlenecked JUST LIKE ATLANTA a couple of weeks before. No one learned anything from it apparently. We had accidents galore and even a jam in the snow with a car on fire made the news (people made a meme out of that photo like the Pillsbury Dough Boy attacking Raleigh and setting the car on fire 😂). I left at 5pm and there was no heavy traffic but the snow was very deep and cars were all over the side of the road from earlier when they got stuck or in an accident. I barely saw any plow trucks on the long way home. Took about an hour and a half for a usually 20 minute drive. It wasn’t fun at all!
This video made me think of the "Gridlock" episode of Doctor Who.
I'm surprised that Metro Manila was not on the list.
Back around 2007 in Pennsylvania there were two separate jams, interstate 78 west of Allentown and 81 near Scranton. PennDOT decided it was best not to plow until the nor'easter was almost over. Eventually semis couldn't push through and got stuck, blocking the roads. Cars and trucks started running out of fuel by the end of the first day so the National Gaurd was called in to evacuate them on the second day. 78 was opened on the third or fourth day and 81 on the fourth or fifth day.
It wasn't even that bad of a storm. It was just complete negligence by the governor and PennDOT.
This reminds me of the doctor who episode where people are just endlessly going around and around in traffic, forget the name of the episode though :P
I was just starting to wonder if I was the only one. 😁
"Gridlock"...I thought of it as soon as I saw the title of the video. 😃
Perfect video for me to watch while driving, sending an email, and eating my spaghetti platter.
... (you forgot the while 'picking' your nose' part 🤗) ...
Unless its snowing, I'd be like bye bye car, I'm going for a walk. See you next week.
VERY creative topic. Really enjoyed the vid as always. 😉👍👍✌
Makes me think of that episode from Doctor Who, Gridlock
Omg sameee
It wasn't one single traffic jam but the series of traffic jams during the august 2017 total solar eclipse on the US is definitely worth a thought
Great video! You forgot the entrance to the annual Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City Nevada. 10 lanes of vehicles coming off of a 2 lane road with wait times approaching 12 hours. Great fun!
So it was...waiting man.
Shoutout to all of the Chicagoans stuck in Snowpocalypse that year. I remember taking the L downtown from Edgewater the day after all of the snow fell and being mesmerized by just how much snow had piled up overnight.
Grateful Dead when they played in at Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine, 1988.
At 4am the morning before the show, traffic was already backed all the way down the 20 mile single lane road into the town, onto the highway, and several miles before the exit.
Slow traffic brings out the worst and most impatient version of myself.
Seattle has had some occasional doozies with traffic jams lasting hours. In instance, I think due to an accident on I-5, traffic stopped completely for several hours. It was during lunch hours so a taco truck stuck in the jam decided to open shop and served tacos to the people also stuck there. Tastiest traffic jam in history.
Yay 2011 I was in that storm, well in the suburbs though, driving back from walmart down the str4eet to my house in the middle of a blizzard lol Obviously I survived like a LEGEND
Longest jam that I remember having to sit through was about 3 or 4 hours on the last few kilometres to a metal festival.
Could have been a lot worse; hundreds of metalhead looking forward to celebrating, blasting music, drinking beer and having fun when the line didn't move.
All went smoothly, it just was a hot day.
I'm surprised the Hurricane Rita evacuation didn't make the list. There were at least 30 people who died during the evacuation of the Houston area. A traffic jam along I-10 stretched from Houston to West and North of San Antonio as well as another on I-45 to Dallas in which 12 elderly nursing home residents died when the bus carrying them caught fire.
I traveled 10 miles in 3 hours on the highway. That's 3.33 miles per hour. I could have literally walked it in that time.
50 lanes...instead of 20 lanes....lmao
The worst traffic jam I was in was when I was being driven from New York to Maryland less than 2 weeks after a major brain surgery. There was a sink hole on the Jersey Turnpike that turned what should have been a 4-5 hour trip to a 10 hour trip. I couldn’t even put my head against the head rest without major pain.
I knew Indonesia was going to be on the list. In October 2017 the president got stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour on the way to a military ceremony. Finally the president decided to walk the remaining two kilometers in the scorching afternoon heat. He then decided to move the capital to the island of Borneo. I personally won't go to Jakarta unless it's a matter of life and death because of the insane traffic congestion.
I had a couple of friends that got caught in the jam in Chicago 2011. They were stuck in their car for almost 3 days and literally almost froze to death. A couple of their family members went out to find them when they found out. They had to walk the last 10 miles or so to get to them. And actually found them before EMS could even get to them
In a Top Gear special in Uganda, they were stuck in traffic in a city center for a couple days.
Sitting in traffic or has been a fun time to me for about 30 years now it’s great for looking at nice cars and even regular cars
Back in 2013 I lived about 50 miles of D.C. and one day, it took those i knew(about a dozen ppl, different cars) working in the Capitol an average of 10 hours to get home. Because it took so long, those who left early....before it got too bad....got home just in time to shower, and get back in the car to return to D.C.
Because theres basically one road between where I lived and D.C., people had been continuously turning around to go back to D.C. so when my dozen friends went to return to D.C. the following day, plus some construction, their following jam was about 4 hours long.
There were a few that admitted to me some pretty strange things they did to stay awake.
Does anyone remember 2006 when the snow in Seattle hit as Monday Night football stated and after the game so many people were stuck on I-5? Many people abandoned their cars in the middle of the freeway. If you looked at the traffic cameras that night at 2am it still looked like a 5pm traffic jam but nobody was in the cars.
My friend would always say you don't get stuck in traffic, you ARE the traffic😁
How do you not have the ice storm traffic jam in Atlanta on this list? It literally closed every road in the city leaving cars stranded on the roads for a week.
5 hours is the longest I been in. California altamonte into the bay a couple years back.
Vehicle Fire on highway.
Truck got stuck on the backroad 1
Backroad 2 was stop and go
And how long does it usually take without traffic? I live in Ottawa Canada and in 5 hours, you cross to the United States!
@@Icykrissy without traffic from my doorstep to hayward is less than an hour. If no traffic. With traffic about 2-2.5h
You didn’t mention the huge traffic jam in Turin Italy in 1969. Apparently the computer code controlling all of the traffic lights was corrupted causing all of the lights to change randomly. This occurred on a day when a football match was also being played against England. Cars we stuck throughout the city, honking their horns and vans full of English fans added to the crush. The only cars that seemed to be moving were a few Police cars pressing their way through the traffic and three Austin Mini Coopers darting about between, through and over the buildings.
In 2005 during the Rita evacuation it took a friend of mine and his family 26 hours to get to a town thats normally 2 hours away. I went to the store got a 18 pack, then went home and crossed my fingers. Luckily it barely ended up raining that time. Harvey was a bit different though.
Watching this while in traffic
You forgot the Hurricane Rita evacuation of Houston in 2005. Immediately after Katrina, what was a category 5 storm was aimed at Houston. People freaked out and started leaving. Reportedly drive times to Dallas were between 24 and 36 hours. About 3 million people left. It's a measure of how traumatic Katrina was for people who hadn't even been through it. And the hurricane hit 100 miles to the east of Houston.
Hurricane Katrina. 18 hour traffic jam. I learned to drive with my eyes shut. Lol
Some of these look like Wash., DC when there is a 10% chance of snow.
A commuter called in a local radio station during a snow event: “I’m just sitting out here on the Beltway watching all the flakes. And it’s snowing, too.” This is no 💩. I heard it that morning on my way to a client site.
You should talk to some truck drivers about traffic jams. They happen all the time and they are very long if there is a fatality.
I came for Jakarta the 'City of Traffic Jams', yet no mentions.... pretty sure it's been gridlocked for at least a couple of decades now.
I just laughed so hard when you mentioned são paulo, the past weekend me and my mom actually spent 10 hours in traffic trying to get to our city, in a trajectory that usually takes no more than 2 hours, all of that because it was a nice sunny weekend and the people of metropolitan são paulo rushed to the beaches as they always do, causing chaos in the beach cities and making everything worse for its citizens, I'm actually from a beach city that on new year, the city simply does not work due to the number of paulistas (people who live in são paulo) here.
I was in that M5 traffic jam and seeing it brought up on here made me remember things I'd hoped never to remember
Yeesh, I can't imagine jams like this. My area only gets three traffic jams per year, all on the same day: July 4. There's the jam trying to get to the area where the Independence Day parade is held, the jam of people trying to get home after the parade ends, and the jam of people going home at night after the local rodeo is finished (and the municipal fireworks that accompany it).
I was on my way to the Baltimore comic con 2019, Google said it was a 20 minute delay, turned out to be about 2hrs. Simply because I missed 2hrs of comic con makes this number 11 if the list had been longer.
The traffic jam in Mumbai city due to flooding in 1996 lasted almost a week, Surprised you have no mention of that as compared to the 12 and 15 hour jams shown.
2 months ago it took me 6 hours to move 15 miles in a traffic jam
Longest traffic jam I've been in early to mid 00s a few nights before Christmas on I-24 Southbound near Clarksville - that area had been hit by an ice storm the previous night and still had issues from it. I ended up completely stuck due to an accident from about 10 PM until about 3 AM. (After an hour, I fell asleep while waiting and someone had to knock on my car door to wake me up.) My mom said that it had made the news and had backed up into Kentucky and cleared shortly after local sunrise.
Just putting this out there...I 💜 Simon!
Take care and stay safe, everyone!
2:36 Can we talk about how 6 people are sitting on that cars trunk. Modern day sedans could never have that many people. Even having 4 people sitting across.
I was stuck over 6 hrs on I 95 in Virginia. This was back in the 1980s middle of summer that was no fun at all
I hated traveling I-95 when we used to road trip to Florida to visit my grandparents (we were a family of 5, it was cheaper). Especially once you hit the Baltimore exit(s) and the DC exit(s).
I remember one time being caught in traffic for about 2 hours on the...495 or 695 (I can't remember which one). Not fun when we were trying to reach Rocky Mount, North Carolina to stop for the night.
@@xxibjrosek Yes, that is a bad area
I 495/ I 95/ I 395 the Capital Beltway is a nightmare. I sat in regular rush hour traffic many times trying to go from Woodbridge VA to Laurel MD
I was commuting to work in VA for two years as my wife was finishing a Degree at U of MD
The bad one was US 17 exit at Fredericksburg to Stafford VA we got off there found out an 18 wheeler was cut off and hit by a car and spilled a load. Between Lifeflighting, clearing the wreckage and clearing the lanes nothing moved for hours. We were allowed after a long time to go down the shoulder. We had just got on I 95 about when it happened and I think it took 8 or 9 hours to reopen all lanes.
Not quite top-ten material, but I was on the M25 one Friday afternoon in 1997 when the traffic backed up so far that the entire clockwise carriageway became a 117-mile traffic jam for the first time in the history of the M25. I expect it has done this again dozens of times since 1997...
Anytime in Bangkok in mid 1990s. Joke was if you need an ambulance you won't make it to the hospital alive. Took 1 1/2 hours to go half a mile.
What a jam.
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I knew Sao Paulo will be on the list :D
Bright an early (US time), got my playlist loaded (All Simon, all the time) and plenty of house work to do! Time to remind myself of another reason I live in the country, traffic. 😂
lol that's my mom's cousin sitting on the back of the car playing guitar in the woodstock traffic jam, the photo was in life magazine and i believe he was 16. he was also a contestant on jeopardy once. he died in 2014 and i never met him but definitely seemed like an interesting guy
The worst traffic jam I ever saw was when a truck carrying Smuckers overturned
Out here (Southern California) not so long ago, a "Bud Light" truck overturned. The CHP had a lot of help clearing the road. lol.
Smuckers? It's a what?
@@Graeme_Lastname mostly jams and jellies (preserves).
@@skyden24195 OK, thanks m8. My ignorance never ceases to amaze me. ;)
Sounds like a sticky situation...
Now what you needed was a bread truck and a peanut butter truck.
My dad was stuck in number 7. He ended up abandoning his plans and turned around.
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~~Simon Whistler~~
Was in a long traffic jam on the A1 (motorway section) in Yorkshire UK in the mid 90's, we were touring in our circus bus so got out and entertained some of the other trapped drivers, its the only time i have unicycled, eaten fire and diaboloed on a motorway.
My wife cooked a roast dinner which we ate ouside the bus with a table and chairs to the annoyance of everyone who could see us.
The yearly July 4th traffic jam in Laurel Montana can get pretty bad.
Simon, do you use the same writer for all your channels?
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5:45 _Unless you're looking at the largest cities the country is devoid of traffic problems_
Literally every Russian city with over 100000 people: 👁️👄👁️
Source: I am Russian LOL
I'm sorry, but you missed Kasangula: 5 countries ( Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe) meet at the 200m wide Zambezi river. About 2000km south is Johannesburg, and various port cities all providing supplies to many African nations, especially mining. There is no bridge over the river there, Zimbabwe has failed, crumbling her transport infrastructure, and corrupting her police. Kasangula is therefore the best option for trucks. There is only one ferryboat, and it can only take 1 22m truck at a time. Fresh goods and people take priority, meaning the trucks typically wait 2 weeks to cross. Just think what this tactic jam does for the African economy. I hope Simon reads this.
I spent 10 years as a commercial driver in the western US. People are idiots. People in their cars take that to a WAY stupider level.
I was in a traffic jam in 2017 in Brisbane Australia it lasted 18 hours or something ridiculous it’s was due to an acid explosion that also melted the part of the motorway
Suddenly Austin, TX traffic doesn't seem so bad.
Austin traffic wouldn't be bad at all, if Texas drivers had a single clue how to merge properly.
@@mikefrisby9233 That is so true.
Texan here who actually does know how to merge. Got to remember, texas is technically it's own world and therefore does have its laws. Also, with the way lower cost of living here, great weather, and excellent bbq - you do have to come to the conclusion that most who don't know how to merge are actually transplants(may have Texas plates, but is actually from another state) such bringing the absurd road rage of new york city, the stoned off their butt drivers of los Angeles, and the wannabe breaking bad tweeked out drivers of....a trailer park(these idiots come from everywhere) do contribute to the quickly changing traffic issues.
Oh, and TXDOT. We all know their timelines for finishing work.
Example - 2 mile stretch of road to be repaved - started in 1998
Estimated finish time: 8 months
Actual finishing time - 2012 and still incomplete!
Look for this: " The Southern Thruway - Argentine author Julio Cortázar's" short tale about a "lifetime" in traffic Jam.
Every city I've lived near has the same traffic jams every day and night. And I've always wondered why do people deal with it daily. I would move or quit life's to short
Did anyone else who lives in traffic-prone areas get anxiety just watching this?
People will NEVER LEARN….this will ALWAYS happen as long as you’re driving a car.
So it in 2015 there was a jam in ky due to 2 ft of snow when some people were stuck for up to 6 days because they ran out of fuel. Official it was cleared in 24 hours but that was only around Louisville
I can’t imagine being in a traffic jam.That lasted for over a week.
It's it is not moving at all, you personally wouldn't be, your car would be after you abandoned.