Roads in Yantian District were blocked by cars for about 10 hours as a large number of container trucks arrived at Yantian Port after it was reopened following a typhoon warning Saturday morning.
Traffic did not return to normal until 4 p.m. Saturday, with many residents complaining that the trucks ignored traffic rules in order to get into the port, yesterday's Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
Yantian Port reopened at 6 a.m. Saturday after being closed for 30 hours in anticipation of Typhoon Megi.
Several main roads in Yantian, including Yantian Road, Mingzhu Thoroughfare and Beishan Road, were blocked as container trucks attempted U-turns at intersections, the newspaper said.
Several buses had to be rerouted as a result of the jam. "We had to change bus stops temporarily at the Yantian Port bus stop so that we could have lunch and change shifts there," a No. 238 bus driver said. "The trucks were queued up from the port to Henggang Building in Longgang District. It was impossible for us to go back to our terminals," he said.
One resident, identified as Song, said he waited three hours for a bus. "I started waiting at 6 a.m. and saw just one No. 238 at 10 a.m.," he said.
"Usually there are no more than 20 people waiting at the bus stop, but today there were at least 200," a store owner at the Yantiansicun bus stop said. (Wang Yuanyuan)
Sidebar: Cold weather approaches city
Temperatures in the city will fall sharply tonight owing to the arrival of cold air from northern China, the city's meteorological observatory said Saturday.
Temperatures could fall to below 20 degrees Celsius tonight and cold and cloudy weather was expected to continue into next week, yesterday's Daily Sunshine reported.
Typhoon Megi, the 13th typhoon to hit Guangdong this year, made little impact on the city as it made landfall in Zhangpu County, Fujian Province, on Saturday. It gradually weakened and was northward at a speed of between 10 and 15 kilometers per hour. Wind speeds near the center of the typhoon reached 136 kilometers per hour as it made landfall, the observatory said.
(Wang Yuanyuan)
