This Photo Does Not Show a Typical 50-Lane Traffic Jam in China

Starting in 2015 and repeating yearly, social media and mainstream media have taken note of heavy traffic in China, showing photos and videos of fifty lanes backed up on a superhighway as an example of the daily grind of living in a country with four times the population of the US. Others have specifically highlighted the fact that this fifty lane complex merges into four lanes as an example of oft-cited shoddy Chinese infrastructure.