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Bangkok, Thailand, is known as one of the world's most congested cities.

Efforts are being made to eliminate gridlock, like increased riverboat transportation and the additions of an elevated train and airport link.

Moscow, Russia, ranked fourth on this year's TomTom's Traffic Index.

Pictured here is a traffic jam on Tverskaya Street.


Imagine that free lane in lagos

The gridlocked streets of Jakarta, Indonesia, often leave commuters in buses, cars, and motorcycles stranded for hours.

According to a study published this year by Castrol, Jakarta drivers had more stops and starts than drivers in any other city.

The average driver in Jakarta has to stop 33,420 times per year more than twice the number of New York.

Traffic backs up as hundreds of cars sit, stuck, in the Oshodi area of Lagos, Nigeria.

In Nigeria, locals refer to traffic jams as "go-slows," and they are said to occur at any given moment throughout the day.


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Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge, which connects the neighborhoods of Ortaköy and Beylerbeyi, experiences a flood of traffic during rush hour.

According to a 2014 report from GPS manufacturer TomTom, commuters in Istanbul spend a staggering 125 hours stuck in traffic every year.

Vehicles are packed together on a highway junction in Xiamen, China.

Beijing, China.

Hundreds of motorcycles ride through the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Cars, buses, and motorcycles all play a role in the traffic flow of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Millions of motorcycles ride through its streets everyday, and cars and buses drive either in the center lanes of two-way streets or in the left lane of one-way streets.

Beautiful people, HBD.

With heavy snow falling in Chicago during the day of February 1, 2011,those trying to travel on Lake Shore Drive were essentially snowed in.

More than 20 inches fell in just a few hours, leaving cars buried up to their windshields and stopping cars, trucks and motorcycles in their tracks for almost 12 hours.



http://www.lolwot.com/12-shockingly-huge-traffic-jams-from-around-the-world/

With a large amount of snow falling all over Atlanta, much of it was brought to a complete stop when some 1 million road users were unable to move along the road for up to 12 hours.

The chaos from the weather combined with a lack of public transport meant that the highways were overcrowded and were unable to get moving again.

This even led to women giving birth while stuck in the traffic jam.

Morning rail rush in Beijing.

Lines of cars are pictured during a rush hour traffic jam on Guomao Bridge in Beijing.

Before an airport was built in the Chilean archipelago of Chiloé, people commuting to the mainland of Chile would need to take a four-hour drive plus a ferry.

Hong Kong.

A winter snowstorm brought afternoon traffic to a standstill in Calgary.

Overcrowded subway station, Brazil.

India.

Commuters wait in a line to board busses into Manhattan in front of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

In Soweto, South Africa, you often have to take the train into your own hands.

At 21 million people, Lagos has become Africa's largest city. It was only 1.4 million in 1970, so as you might imagine, traffic is rough.

It's hard to imagine being stuck in this Mumbai commuter train.

The security checks during rush hour in Beijing make for insanely long lines.

Scooters rush hour in taiwan.

Train stations in Japan actually hire staff whose sole job is to push commuters onto the trains and close the door afterwards.

In London, commuters struggle to get into the Underground at Oxford Circus on a normal day.


Many Londoners trek across the London Bridge as part of their commute, especially if they work in the financial sector.

The 33-year-old, of Dhaka city, Bangladesh, explains:

'It is busiest on the trains in the mornings and evenings when people are coming into the city to work or leaving to go home.

'Those who fail to get a place inside the train end up climbing onto the roof or holding onto the sides and fronts of the train.'

These staggering images capture the crushing daily grind for commuters in Bangladesh, which sees thousands of workers clambering over one another to board a train out of Dhaka city.

They leave home as early as 4:00am and get to work late after 8:00am.


In Nigeria, locals refer to traffic jams as "go-slows," and they are said to occur at any given moment throughout the day.

Lagos, Nigeria.

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No one enjoys having to go to work in the mornings, especially if they have a commute from hell.

And that's precisely what these are.


Traffic jams and road congestion is something that everybody has to deal with either daily or at some point in their life.

Whether you are going to work, or coming back home, catching a train, making the school trip to drop off the kids, doing some shopping, travelling or simply trying to commute to work, busy roads can be incredibly frustrating.

100 people on a bus or train thats meant for 20 or sitting in your car and moving along as a snail’s pace is something that nobody enjoys.

However, over the past decade or so the problem has grown much worse.

A bigger distribution of wealth and cheaper cars mean that more people can afford to own a vehicle and with roads rarely being expanded or improved, they can’t keep up with the growth.

The problem is even worse in developing countries where until a few years ago, only the very wealthy could afford to drive.

Coupled with occasional treacherous storm or natural disaster, this has led to some truly incredible traffic jams that have caused more than a slight delay.











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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3565424/Are-world-s-worst-journeys-work-Extraordinary-footage-reveals-daily-hell-faced-commuters-including-rats-sardine-train-conditions-Japan-open-cable-car-China.html

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dasphinx1:
There is a passage leading to the roof from the last floor....

Like a pent house.