Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Many places, departments and measures have been taken to ensure a safe and orderly return journey from the Spring Festival.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ye Haoming and Wang Yuhao.
On February 14, the fifth day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival holiday has passed halfway, and many people have begun to prepare for returning to work, and the flow of returning passengers has gradually increased.
As the absolute main force of this year's Spring Festival, road travel has increased significantly from the 14th, and February 17 (the eighth day of the first lunar month) will be the peak period for the return of the Spring Festival. "We expect the peak of the expressway to reach 65.2 million vehicles, which is 1About 75 times. Li Yang, vice minister of transport, said.
In view of the road network situation of this year's Spring Festival, Li Yang said that he will strengthen the diversion of congested road sections, improve the traffic capacity of toll stations, and optimize obstacle clearance and rescue. During the Spring Festival transportation period, in response to the needs of large passenger flows, mobile toilets and mobile charging facilities will be added to the service area to provide services for vehicle parking, charging and refueling.
Recently, the temperature difference between day and night in some areas of Hubei Province has increased, foggy weather is prone to frequent occurrences, highway visibility has been greatly reduced, and the peak traffic flow of the return trip has increased sharply, which is easy to cause various road traffic accidents. To this end, the Hubei Provincial Spring Festival Transport Office strengthened its territorial responsibilities and promoted the mechanism of dispatching on-site coordinators from the local transportation bureau to key toll stations on the expressway, so as to ensure the rapid passage of vehicles. Hubei Provincial Department of Transportation implements 24-hour real-time monitoring of the province's highways, one dispatch per day, one supervision, one plan all the way, and at the same time starts the centralized cleaning of white garbage on the highways in Hubei Province during the Spring Festival holiday, so as to create a "smooth, safe, comfortable and beautiful" highway traffic environment for the people's return after the holiday.
In terms of railways, the return passenger flow of the Yangtze River Delta region continues to increase, and the relevant person in charge of the China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group said that the Yangtze River Delta Railway is expected to send 2.45 million passengers on the 14th. To this end, Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. will add 100 passenger trains from the Yangtze River Delta to Nanchang, Changsha, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and other direct directions, 96 passenger trains from Hefei, Fuyang, Xuzhou, Yancheng and other places to Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou, and organize 143 EMU trains to reconnect to meet the travel needs of holiday passengers.
During the Spring Festival, Beijing Daxing International Airport is expected to guarantee about 360,000 flights, welcoming more than 5.5 million passengers. At present, a number of on-site airlines have encrypted the frequency of popular routes such as Sanya, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, and replaced the flights operated by wide-body aircraft. In view of the peak return to Beijing after the holiday, the Daxing Airport Line of the Metro will implement delayed operation at night; The airport bus will increase the number of standby vehicles, so that "when the bus is full, make up the shift at any time", so as to facilitate the travel of passengers.
This year's Spring Festival, the Qiongzhou Strait ushered in a transportation peak. Judging from the information on the number of advance tickets, it is expected that the Qiongzhou Strait will be held on February 16 and 17 (at the beginning of the first month.
7. The eighth day of the first lunar month) ushered in the peak of the return trip, with more than 170,000 passengers transported per day and more than 40,000 vehicles. To this end, the Qiongzhou Strait will continue to fully implement the reservation system, and the south coast will strictly implement the management of vehicles entering the port 3 hours before sailing, and strengthen the on-site order maintenance; At the same time, we will increase the number of flights, strive to sail more than 300 times a day, and invest no less than 6 shifts of new energy vehicles to meet the demand for new energy vehicles crossing the sea; In addition, according to the traffic flow situation on both sides of the strait, we will strengthen the transportation organization, and support the vehicles leaving the island on the south coast to speed up the evacuation through the emptying of ships on the north coast.
During the return journey of the Spring Festival, although the weather continues to warm up in some areas, as a strong cold air moves eastward and southward, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and its northern areas will cool down from north to south, with some areas dropping by more than 10 degrees Celsius, with rain turning to sleet or snow. The transportation departments in many places will strengthen the coordination with the meteorological and natural resources departments, release weather conditions and traffic control information through a variety of channels, and activate the emergency plan as soon as there is extreme weather such as rain, snow and ice, cold wave and strong wind, fog and dense fog. At the same time, through the key operating vehicle networking joint control system platform, etc., the driver will be pushed to safety information to remind him to pay attention to driving safety.