

"Goes to prove what a gridlock Hobart city is. Traffic is Dhaka’s deafening music, a dissonant theme song of shouting drivers, rumbling engines and, leading the attack, honking horns: vocals, bass, ill-tuned brass. Synonyms for traffic jam include gridlock, congestion, jam, logjam, tailback, bottleneck, holdup, blockage, roadblock and tie-up. One woman reported being stuck trying to get out of the Argyle Street car park for more than an hour. They were unable to come and pick up their children until really late, so I had to stay back," she said. 2 3 The traffic jam slowed thousands of vehicles for more than 100 kilometers (60 mi) and lasted for 12 days.

"Last night the phones were running off the hook, lots of families were stuck in traffic," child care worker Georgia Carney said. The China National Highway 110 traffic jam was a recurring 1 traffic jam that began to form on 14 August 2010, mostly on China National Highway 110 (G110) and the BeijingTibet expressway (G6), in Hebei and Inner Mongolia. The flow-on effects were felt across the city, including at the Goodstart Early Learning Centre in West Hobart. In response, a Transport Department information officer advised people to delay their trips if possible and to consider staying in town for dinner.Ĭommuters reported seeing an ambulance having to mount a footpath in Campbell Street to get through the gridlock, while childcare centres were forced to stay open, waiting for parents to collect their children. It caused traffic to bank up more than 20 kilometres and cars were still moving at a snail's pace on some roads until after 7:00pm. Traffic Jam Extreme is a highly-addictive puzzle game where the goal is to untangle the vehicles in the lot and restore order to the streets of Stresstropolis.
