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Services did not return to normal until 9 am Monday. Passengers said it was then that they saw many buses on the same route arriving one after another. The bad road conditions also put some heavily loaded buses out of service. A veteran driver surnamed Gu called a rescue team after the right front tire of his bus blew while passengers were boarding on East Huixin Street.
Monday morning's temperature dropped to 14 degrees below zero,sac burberry, the lowest in six decades. Icy slopes caused hundreds of vehicles to skid sideways or become immobilized.
Local insurance companies said Monday they recorded up to 50 percent more traffic accidents due to the snow. Li Zheng,casque beats, the owner of a rear wheel drive BMW M4 said he could not risk his 400,burberry soldes,000-yuan vehicle which was "impossible to maneuver" on slippery roads.
"It was totally no use getting up early today,abercrombie and fitch," said a man surnamed Zhao,burberry, covering his frozen nose with a facemask as he waited at a snow-covered bus stop near Huilongguan, one of the largest communities of the city on his way to work. "Where were all the buses?"
Hundreds of passengers Monday morning queue outside the Dongzhimen subway station, a terminal for the Beijing Airport Express. The express train was suspended due to heavy snow but resumed by 5:30 pm. [Mirror Evening News]
Zhang Hongtian,beats by dre, a rescue member at the scene, said the city's public transport system was overrun by the extreme weather. "I've worked for 10 years as a rescuer, but this was the worst I've seen," said the 46-year-old veteran.
"Many of my colleagues were hours late and many buses were parked in the terminal,louboutin," said conductor Zhou Lan on Bus Route No 684 in Chaoyang district. "The time intervals between buses were unbearably long. There weren't enough buses on the roads."
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Schools should return to normal on Tuesday and authorities expect the traffic pressure to continue as primary and middle school students join millions of commuters.
Traffic police said Monday that half of the day's emergency calls came from that area.
And hundreds of vehicles and passengers were still jammed for most of Monday at the northern section of the Badaling Expressway that links downtown Beijing and nearby regions.
The city's public transport remained chaotic Monday as thousands of local commuters battled with the biting cold at bus stops that saw much longer bus intervals.
The public transport authority also imposed a temporary restriction on the use of subways and buses by commuters in northern and southern Beijing,casque dr dre, due to a sudden influx of passengers to the train stations as well as an insufficient supply of buses.
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