Workers instead crowded into already over-stuffed city busses and waited in half-hour taxi lines, ultimately snarling surface traffic in the southern end of the city and tripling travel times.

• 人们转而挤上已经过载的公共汽车，排队等半小时才能等到出租车，最后造成市区南部的地面交通混乱，人们在上班路上花的时间多了两倍。