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Chinese Traffic Jam: 62 Miles Long, 9+ Days

1:16 am EST August 24th, 2010 | Weird, World | Comments Off

You have got to be kidding. I thought the 405 was bad.

If ever there were a case for the importance of good urban planning that includes mass transit, this is it: a 62-mile traffic standstill on a road leading to Beijing is now in its ninth day, with individual drivers caught in it for as long as three days. The cause of the jam — beyond the skyrocketing number of drivers in China — is heavy use of the route, the Beijing-Tibet expressway, by trucks bringing construction supplies into Beijing.

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Flasher Gets Hit By Car

10:31 am EST December 16th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Failure, all around.

A WOMAN who flashed her breasts at motorists ended up distracting one driver so much he ran her over.

Cherelle Dudfield, 18, rolled over the car’s bonnet and hit the windscreen but escaped serious injury.

The New Zealand teenager was later arrested and has now admitted disorderly behaviour.

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Time To Let GM Die

6:48 pm EST February 17th, 2009 | News | 15 Comments

$30 billion isn’t a bailout. $30 billion is a whole new car company.

General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it could need a total of up to $30 billion in U.S. government aid — more than doubling its original aid — and would run out of cash as soon as March without new federal funding.

GM wants the equivalent of almost 4% of the entire stimulus package that just passed. Not only are they unlikely to repay it, they’re unlikely to make the fundamental changes necessary to adapt to the future and get their house in order. I can’t see any way right now we should be entertaining the idea of propping up GM at this cost.

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