11.   Unlike Monday, national road authorities reported no major traffic jams, with most roadblocks designed to filter private motorists through while halting commercial traffic.

12.   Unlike the situation on Monday, national road authorities reported no major traffic jams, with most roadblocks designed to filter private motorists through while halting commercial traffic.

13.   As well as petrol shortages hitting private motorists, industry has been hit with lay-offs due to lack of supplies caught in the roadblocks.

14.   Experts said other motels were likely to open in Shanghai and throughout the country as private motorists took to the roads.

15.   Private motorists should be prepared for problems where blockades have been set up on main roads and around towns, it added.