Stark (novel) on this novel, which was subsequently made as "Stark", a television miniseries. It was a joint production by the BBC and the ABC (the British and Australian national broadcasters). Ben Elton played the lead role, with Colin Friels as Sly and Jacqueline McKenzie as Rachel. There were some differences between the novel and the miniseries; some characters were renamed, and the ending was different. Elton's subsequent two novels, "Gridlock" and "This Other Eden", also deal with environmental themes and are set in a dystopian future. "Alternative 3", a 1977 British television hoax masquerading as a documentary, shared some themes with
Gridlock August 14 to the 26, including at least 11 days of total gridlock, with some drivers spending up to 5 days to cross this stretch of highway. The event was caused by a combination of road works and thousands of coal trucks from Inner Mongolia’s coalfields that travel daily to Beijing. The "New York Times" has called this event the "Great Chinese Gridlock of 2010." According to "Time" magazine, São Paulo has the world's worst daily traffic jams. On 23 May 2014, the worst traffic jam in history was registered, with of traffic jam. For several years, the traffic jam