No one likes to get stuck in traffic, but next time it takes you an extra 15 minutes to get home, stay calm and remember: it could be worse. Here are the 10 worst traffic jams in history, listed alphabetically:
- Beijing, China: August 2010 - 62 miles long, lasted 12 days
- Bethel, New York (Woodstock): August 1969 - 20 miles long, lasted 3 days
- Chicago, Illionois: February 2011 - Rush hour blizzard buries motorists for 12 hours in 2 feet of snow
- East/West Germany: April 1990 - After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans trying to reconnect with their families led to over 18 million cars jamming up the highways
- Interstate 45, Texas: September 2005 - Hurricane Rita led to a mass evacuation from Houston to Galveston causing a 100-mile jam for 48 hours
- Lyon-Paris, France: February 1980 - Bad weather caused a 109-mile traffic jam
- Moscow, Russia: November 2012 - Snowstorms shut down a highway from St. Petersburg to Moscow for 3 days
- New York City, New York: September 2001 - In the days after the attacks on September 11th, New York City was virtually locked down to all traffic except emergency vehicles leaving thousands of travelers stranded
- San Paulo, Brazil: June 2009 - 182 miles of traffic jams over 522 miles of road
- Tokyo, Japan: August 1990 - Over 15,000 vehicles crawled along 84 miles of highway between Hyogo and Shiga
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