Nearly half-a-million hit Beijing's roads on May Day

Beijing witnessed an epic expressway traffic jam on the first day of the May Day holiday, May 1, according to the Legal Evening News.

The worst congestion was on the expressway between Beijing and Tibet, where a 55 km queue leaving Beijing started from the fourth ring road and reached Badaling at the Great Wall. By 9am, 477,760 vehicles were recorded heading out of the city on different highways.