Today (February 17) is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, the reporter saw in the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway Fengjing service area, the return to Shanghai vehicles are endless, and the peak traffic is expected to last from 1 pm to 9 pm. The reporter learned that from the sixth day of the first lunar month, the average daily traffic volume of the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway into Shanghai reached 780,000 vehicles, an increase of about 50% compared to the usual level.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the reporter came to the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway Fengjing service area, the scene of the traffic flow was stable, two-way driving smooth, and there was no congestion. In the service area, many citizens take a break or dine here. Ms. Wu, a citizen, said that the family had just returned from a trip to Wuyi Mountain, and the children were about to start school, so they set off at 2 o'clock in the morning to rush back to Shanghai, "We thought it would be very congested, but we didn't expect that except for the narrow roads and slight congestion caused by speed limits in Fujian, the rest of the time was relatively smooth, and we arrived in Shanghai after driving for 8 hours."
The reporter saw on the monitoring screen of the command center of the Songjiang District Expressway Brigade that the Songjiang section of the G60 Shanghai-Kunming Expressway was running smoothly as a whole, and the vehicles on the road were driving in an orderly manner. At the same time, the Songjiang District Expressway Brigade has dispatched additional early warning vehicles and tractors to do a good job in the rear warning of congestion and early intervention and diversion and other safeguard measures to "escort" the peak time of returning to Shanghai. "We expect the specific congestion points to be concentrated in the G60 to S32 section, the G60 to G1501 section and the Xinqiao main line toll station section. Wu Shuai, deputy captain of the high-speed brigade of the Songjiang District Traffic Police Detachment, told reporters.
It should be reminded that the free time of the expressway during the Spring Festival holiday this year ends at 24 o'clock tonight, which is subject to the time when the vehicle leaves the exit toll lane. If the end of the free is approaching, the public can get off the expressway from the nearest toll booth.
Text, **Chen Junjie (trainee).
Editor: Zhou Jiayao.