GREAT MOMENTS IN EPIC GRIDLOCK

I used to think the rush-hour traffic jams in Nashville were pretty bad.

Then I moved to Hong Kong, where traffic jams are constant thanks to ad hoc road design and constant road construction.

Then I made a few trips to Bangkok, where the traffic jams are legendary and make HK look like it’s not really trying.

But at least they didn’t last over ten days. Like this one outside Beijing.

Triggered by road construction, the snarl-up began 10 days ago and was 100 kilometers (60 miles) long at one point. Reaching almost to the outskirts of Beijing, traffic still creeps along in fits and starts, and the crisis could last for another three weeks, authorities say...

In the worst-hit stretches of the road in northern China, drivers pass the time sitting in the shade of their immobilized trucks, playing cards, sleeping on the asphalt or bargaining with price-gouging food vendors...

China Central Television reported Tuesday that some vehicles had been stuck for five days...

The pictures in that story are worth viewing.

Anyway, next time yr stuck in traffic, remember: it can always be worse.

And if it’s any consolation, Warren Zevon knows how you feel.

Let’s get moving,

This is dF