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Chinese Road Has Been Labelled The World’s 'Most Complicated Traffic Junction'

Chinese Road Has Been Labelled The World’s 'Most Complicated Traffic Junction'

Police say it's a work in process.

Mark McGowan

Mark McGowan

Many people see China as a place where innovation rules. Everyone assumes that because things have 'Made in China' written on them it makes it the place we couldn't live without.

While that does make sense, it's not entirely the case - a point which is better explained by Karl Pilkington and the fact a new road has been dubbed the world's 'most complicated traffic junction'.

Credit: Sky1/An Idiot Abroad

The junction is certainly not something that'll end up catching on, as one look at it is enough to give you a headache, never mind having to drive through it.

It's in the city of Zhangjiakou, in China's north-west Hebei province and features just about every road marking we've come to expect.

The mixture of rounded markings, straight ones, diagonal ones and zebra crossings have got people on social media trying to work out how one would navigate it.

After long debates, no one is actually any closer to being able to properly decipher it.

Credit: Hebei Broadcasting Network

Luckily, police offered no help whatsoever on the matter, telling people the system is a 'work in process'. It means they've effectively commissioned a trial run on a demolition derby.

With regards to explaining how to get through the junction the authorities told drivers to 'follow the lines and drive normally', which, again, is no help whatsoever.

Users on the Hebei Broadcasting Network attempted to draw on pictures of the roads, indicating what they think might be the correct protocol.

Credit: Hebei Broadcasting Network

"Elderly drivers will get a headache driving on this complicated road," one user wrote, while another added: "Wait and see if tourists come here for the Winter Olympics."

Roads work pretty well as they are, if I'm honest, so once again we'll all have to call upon Will Smith to deliver words of wisdom: "And if ain't broke then don't try to fix it...

"And think of the summers of the past, adjust the bass and let the Alpine blast, pop in my CD and let me run a rhyme and put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime."

Okay 99 percent of that is totally irrelevant, but if something works fine then there's no need to alter it.

There could potentially be an investigation going into some drunk Chinese bloke who was given a pen, ruler and compass and told to design a road.

Featured Image Credit: Hebei Broadcasting Network

Topics: World News, China, Cars

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