Talk:China National Highway 110 traffic jam/Archive 1

Never mind the mini-economy - what does this do to Chinese business?
The articles don't say what the effect of this jam is on manufacturers and other businesses. Does this mean that orders are backlogged, products are unavailable? Will something like this limit China's ability to compete in the world market? Wnt (talk) 04:26, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Bear in mind that China is a very large country both geographically and in population, that Beijing, though the capital, is still only one city, and that this problem is mostly affecting only one route to/from it. Obviously there will be some effect on some internal and international business, and since the problem is still ongoing, we can't yet know what the final impact will be, but I'd be surprised if it were very significant on a national and international scale in the long term. Presumably some commentary on this topic should be showing up in the business and financial sections of major news media any time now. 87.81.230.195 (talk) 09:42, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Wow I'm curious to see how many employees companies lost for those days. 07:02, 25 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.199.100.223 (talk)

What are the Casualties?
Something like this must have caused loss of life or near loss of life. This distance is almost the distance between Philly and New York. A stretch that long with a typical demographic should be suffering casualties such as through heart attacks, strokes, etc. Not to mention people who are on medication but whose supply has run out. What's the word on that?99.187.238.14 (talk) 11:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

WP:NOTNEWS
This isn't noteworthy, let alone main page worthy. These traffic jams happen all the time, look at the sources - This is just a slow-news day piece that has gone viral. It's not a special event, it is not unprecedented. Nothing here distinguishes it from any other massive Chinese traffic jam. At best, this should be merged with the China National Highway 110 to talk about its lack of capacity. Some may even argue for its deletion. Wikipedia should not be shouting about it with its top line on the front page. Contributions/192.93.164.28 (talk) 12:44, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * "Traffic slowed to a snail's pace in June and July for nearly a month, according to earlier press reports."
 * just uses this as an example to discuss the wider road infrastructure problems in China.
 * "In fact, the mega blockage – the second in two months on a stretch of road about 130 miles northwest of the capital"

Why does the argentine page redirect to this? and why is this page suddenly the entire argentinia page instead of the news article it started out as? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Contributions/114.30.116.187 (talk) 12:46, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

It's interesting, I guess, but not front page worthy. I agree with the user above. Merge it with China National Highway article. Bravo601 (talk) 12:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)Bravo601Bravo601 (talk) 12:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I think it's fascinating, I had no idea such things existed. A week in one jam, incredible. I start shouting after about 20 minutes! I'm glad I caught this while it was on the front page.


 * I think there's a distinction between a month of very slow traffic and a jam where people report being stuck for five days. I'd honestly thought that Gridlock (Doctor Who) was over the top satire. Wnt (talk) 15:53, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Emissions from vehicles idling
Someone might add information about emissions from vehicles idling.—Wavelength (talk) 19:52, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

WP:NOTNEWS
So, which part of this event is notable or encyclopedic? Strange Passerby (talk) 12:40, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
 * It's notable since it doesn't happen everyday, and that it is quite an extreme case of a traffic jam, that is well covered in third party sources. --  李博杰   | —Talk contribs email 02:06, 26 August 2010 (UTC)

Which highway was it?
This image from a Chinese news source needs to be decyphered and understood. And one of our own made, of course. According to this note by Tomchen1989 we may not even have the right highway. Fred Talk 13:26, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Present/Past Tense
This article still appears to have some holdovers of present tense and I'm thinking it's OK to put it all in past tense, right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.81.141 (talk) 19:40, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Urban Legends
Because the source cited for this section only gives information on one photograph and the source does not fully support the current text, I suggest revising this section to the following: "Many serious and joke websites use an unrelated photograph, taken from a photoshopped image from Interstate 405 (California), Los Angeles, to illustrate the 2010 traffic jam." 2601:E:2580:48E:984A:78C7:9082:597D (talk) 19:41, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

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Photograph/image
The photo being used to supposedly illustrate this article about China is a photoshopped image of Los Angeles’ 405 freeway. See analysis of the distortion and the original photo at these links: http://philip.greenspun.com/images/pcd0222/los-angeles-traffic-44.tcl http://www.bricoleurbanism.org/whimsicality/when-photoshop-is-so-good-its-bad/ Bluepenciltime (talk) 04:32, 7 August 2018 (UTC)