Chao News Client Special Commentator Hu Xinhong.
Source: Hangzhou Chengguan.
As soon as school ends, the motorway at the school gate becomes a parking lot, and the entire street is blocked. "Every day, there is a 'regular congestion', and there is no parking place near the school, and sometimes it is difficult to find one, and you have to be ticketed. ”…For many parents, picking up their babies from school is a headache. Especially in some schools in the old town, the surrounding roads are narrow, the parking space is tight, and when it is time to leave school, the road is full of cars. There are also some parents who park at will, resulting in traffic paralysis and even accidents. The "blockage" at the school gate has become a difficult point in urban management, which is depressing but difficult to solve.
In the face of this chronic disease, all parties involved can be said to have exhausted their efforts. According to Chao News, in Hangzhou's West Lake District, the relevant departments used a set of "underground public parking lot pick-up and drop-off system" to effectively alleviate the traffic congestion problem for the two schools in the downtown area, so that the public can see the hope of congestion at the school gate.
In short, it is to connect the school's supporting public parking lot with the underground pick-up system, through the school to set up a sunken square, parents pick up and drop off students can drive the car to the underground public parking area, students enter or leave the school from the underground pick-up area, and parents carry out rapid pick-up. At the pick-up and drop-off gate, which is called the "Mirai Station", there is a rest area inside and outside, and there is also a turnstile where children need to enter by brushing their faces, and there are security guards on site. It not only ensures the comfort and safety of children, but also greatly saves the time of parents to pick up the baby, and effectively alleviates congestion.
In fact, Hangzhou has already made relevant exploration attempts to carry out practices such as underground pick-up and drop-off systems. Since 2015, Binjiang District has proposed to excavate the underground garage of the school as a public resource, partly for school use, partly open to the public, and at the same time has the function of underground pick-up and drop-off. In this way, it can not only improve the state of the ground that must be blocked at every turn, but also give full play to its social value.
It's better to be blocked than to be sparse. Cracking the congestion at the school gate is a systematic project, involving all aspects, which requires mutual understanding and cooperation between all relevant parties, and it is undoubtedly the key to jump out of the habitual thinking of headache and headache. Otherwise, it is likely that the effort will be in vain. Practices such as opening up underground pick-up and drop-off centers are eye-catching and worth promoting.
Since 2019, all new primary and secondary schools in Hangzhou that have the conditions for renovation have reserved space and pipeline facilities for the construction of student pick-up and drop-off systems, and more than 30 schools have completed the construction and renovation of student pick-up and drop-off systems. It is reported that this system has been implemented in many schools such as Yucai Experimental School, Chunhui Primary School, Qianjiang New Town Experimental Primary School, etc., and has been widely praised. The relevant departments are considering promoting it on a larger scale and will take measures to optimize it, hoping that these "gospels" can be put in place as soon as possible, so that the "future stations" that are not afraid of wind and rain will bloom everywhere.
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