World's 7 Most Terrifying Traffic Jams: From Woodstock to Beijing-Tibet Expressway

• The article highlights seven of the most severe traffic jams globally, contrasting them with the recent Mumbai-Pune Expressway congestion.
• The 1969 Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, New York, caused a 20-mile jam, stranding 400,000 attendees for four days, with artists arriving by helicopter.
• Tokyo, Japan, experienced a 135-kilometer jam in 1990 due to a typhoon warning and holiday returns, trapping over 15,000 vehicles.
• The Beijing-Tibet Expressway in China holds the record for the longest jam, lasting 12 days and stretching over 100 kilometers in 2010, exacerbated by construction and broken-down trucks.
• Other notable jams include Chicago (2011 blizzard), São Paulo (2009, 182 km), Houston (2005, Hurricane Rita evacuation, 160 km), and Moscow (2012, 201 km due to heavy snowfall).