This image was captured right after “golden week”, when the traffic was unusually bad heading out of the city. Presumably holiday traffic is the reason they built fifty lanes of toll booth.
Thank you for adding the clarification. This was intended to be a joke post that China is fully capable of adding absurd amounts of lanes if they want. I was aware but should have provided the fact check in my comment as I wrongly assumed people had already seen this before
For the record I did think it was a funny joke, but I wasn’t aware of the context of the image myself until I reverse-image searched it, and I just wanted to share what I found with the other people in the thread.
That’s the G4 highway, which is a four lane highway before and after this toll booth, scroll north and south on the map and you’ll see (the overlay on google maps is a little misaligned for me).
This image was captured right after “golden week”, when the traffic was unusually bad heading out of the city. Presumably holiday traffic is the reason they built fifty lanes of toll booth.
Thank you for adding the clarification. This was intended to be a joke post that China is fully capable of adding absurd amounts of lanes if they want. I was aware but should have provided the fact check in my comment as I wrongly assumed people had already seen this before
For the record I did think it was a funny joke, but I wasn’t aware of the context of the image myself until I reverse-image searched it, and I just wanted to share what I found with the other people in the thread.