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Delay - China - Trucks outside Beijing endure days-long traffic jam amid crackdown
BEIJING,China -China Daily /Mainichi Daily News (Japan) -Dec 16, 2005: -- A safety crackdown on cargo trucks has triggered a four-day, 20-kilometer-long traffic jam outside Beijing... "It's hard to tell how many more days it will last," Sun Li, a traffic officer in Huailai, north of Beijing in Hebei province, said Friday... The traffic problems started Monday, when city officials banned trucks from using the Badaling Expressway north of Beijing after a heavily laden truck and a bus collided, killing at least 24 people, said... The ban has forced trucks to clog National Highway 101 instead, creating jams made worse by stepped-up weight checks in a bid to stop rampant overloading...
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