Sao Paulo, Brazil's traffic dilemma has spawned predictions that the opening day of the World Cup 2014 may be the most chaotic ever, but workers' strikes have made things much worse.

The Brazilian capital is known for its perennial traffic woes, and this presents a problem especially that the World Cup is just around the corner.

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This time, the city has reached the point beyond traffic chaos and has reached the point of traffic stasis, according to The Guardian.

The metro workers, who are demanding a 20% increase in their salary, held the fifth day of their strike on Monday, and the traffic jams it caused resulted in a 200-kilometer gridlock.

However, they voted on Tuesday night that they will not go on strike on Thursday and disrupt the World Cup 2014 opening.

Still, two main airports in Rio de Janeiro were launching a 24-hour strike starting midnight. This could potentially lead to what could be the most chaotic World Cup opening day ever.

Those coming to Sao Paulo expecting to see football-crazed Brazilians are bound to be disappointed. Sao Paulo has failed to stir excitement in the city about the upcoming World Cup.

One of the reasons for this is that outdoor advertising has been banned in Sao Paulo since 2006, and FIFA has not done anything to overturn this law in time for the tournament to appease their sponsors. So, what little billboard advertisements there are about the World Cup are seen only in the outskirts of the city.

It would seem that Sao Paulo lacked preparation for an event as big as the World Cup 2014, given that the country is stricken with poverty and the football tournament required massive amounts of expenditure.

Another issue is the embarrassing situations in the football stadium. Just one day before the opening game, Sao Paulo's Arenas Corinthians showed a marked lack in festive aura.

Scaffolding was still being constructed, painters were hurriedly coloring the rafters yellow and green, and the signage supposedly leading to the stadium actually led people towards a shopping mall.

Still, the four-hour traffic jams are not powerful enough to snuff out the Brazilians' passion for football. On Wednesday, a gigantic football had been propped up in Itaquerao station and people were scrambling to pose for photos next to the figure.

According to Jose Mereiles, a resident who lives near the stadium, Sao Paulo has always had bad traffic, so the citizens should just "stop complaining."