Make every effort to ensure the smooth and orderly implementation of the free passage of passenger cars during the National Day holiday

On September 5, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications issued an emergency notice on the 5th, requesting the competent transportation authorities of all localities to work together with the relevant departments to clarify the division of tasks under the unified leadership and organization of the provincial people's government, implement the responsibility requirements, strengthen communication and coordination, and cooperate closely. We will make every effort to ensure the smooth and orderly implementation of the free passage of minivans during the long holiday of the National Day this year. We must earnestly start a good start, take good steps, and do a good job.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is deemed as free on the Chinese National Day consecutive holidays.

The notification requires that all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) must strictly comply with the requirements of the implementation plan approved by the State Council when formulating specific implementation plans for the region to ensure that the policies are unified, the calibers are consistent, and the operational procedures are unified and standardized.

The notice pointed out that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival will be held on the National Day. According to the implementation plan, on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, it shall be regarded as free of charge on the Chinese National Day consecutive holidays. Accordingly, the time for the free passage of the minibus on the National Day this year is clearly set to be between 0:00 on September 30 and 24:00 on October 7th.

The notice requires that all regions should not arbitrarily expand the scope of free traffic on major holidays and avoid the inconsistency of free vehicles in all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and trigger new conflicts. During the period of major holiday minivans free of charge, all local highway toll stations (points) should implement the charge management mode of “entrance-issued card, export-receiving card”. In order to implement the toll lanes of the highway network ETC, the ETC lane should be opened and operated to ensure that the passenger bus will display zero tolls during the toll free period.

Comprehensive measures to avoid serious traffic congestion

This year's National Day holiday takes eight days, and it is the first major free holiday for small passenger cars. It is expected that the traffic volume of highways will increase significantly, and the degree of traffic congestion on highways, especially around the toll stations, may further increase. . The notice requires all local transportation authorities and road management agencies to implement comprehensive measures and adjust measures to local conditions. While doing their utmost to ensure the free passage of passenger cars, they actively work to ensure the smooth flow of road traffic and avoid serious traffic congestion.

One must rationally use the existing toll lanes. When the toll station of each road encounters a sudden increase in traffic flow, additional toll collectors must be dispatched to open all toll gates and, if necessary, the toll lanes in the up and down direction should be adjusted in time. For large-capacity and conditional toll stations, as far as possible, a major free-use special passenger bus lane should be set up on the left side of the toll plaza in order to achieve a lane-bypass between the toll vehicle and the free vehicle. For other vehicles that need to pay for goods such as trucks, it should be ensured that there are sufficient toll gates. Each toll road operation management unit shall be equipped with sufficient portable charging equipment to enable the use of "double-entry fees" in time. While ensuring that ETC vehicles do not stop and pass, they can guide some free-pass passenger cars to pass quickly and improve the use efficiency of ETC lanes.

Second, it is necessary to do a good job in traffic deconstruction and order maintenance at the toll station square. Carry out traffic diversions in advance and separate roads to avoid paying vehicles and free vehicles to mix in toll plazas and frequently change driving lanes. It is forbidden for vehicles to be garrisoned before entering the toll booths, to change lanes arbitrarily, and to urge the vehicles to quickly leave the toll plaza after passing through the toll booths, and it is forbidden for vehicles to park near the toll plaza. Coordination and cooperation with public security and traffic police departments to strictly rectify the illegal use of emergency parking, illegal parking, illegal overtaking, illegal overloading and other illegal and illegal driving behavior.

Third, we must strengthen road traffic information release and traffic guidance. Timely release of road traffic conditions, meteorological conditions, traffic control, free passage of passenger cars and other relevant information, guide the vehicles to arrange travel time, adjust travel routes in a timely manner, and avoid congestion on the road. Make full use of the variable information boards and electronic screens along the expressway, and timely release relevant policies, measures and related precautions for major free holidays. Each road toll station shall set temporary traffic sign markings and traffic guidance facilities at appropriate locations in front of the toll plaza.

Doing all kinds of countermeasures during free passage in advance

The notice pointed out that local transportation authorities and road management agencies must adhere to the leadership system and 24-hour emergency duty system, strengthen road maintenance management, strengthen highway obstacle rescue, and strengthen service facilities protection. Leading cadres at all levels, in particular, the responsible comrades of road management agencies and toll road operating management units must rely on the front command and go deep into highway toll stations for on-site guidance and supervision and inspection to ensure the safe and orderly operation of the road network. During the long holiday of the National Day this year, all localities should, in principle, suspend all highway maintenance construction operations that affect the normal capacity of the highway.

The notice requires that the relevant transport authorities should establish inter-provincial linkage coordination mechanisms, strengthen communication and contact, and give full play to the regions where major traffic lanes often have severe traffic jams at the interprovincial borders, and the implementation of expressway inter-provincial networking and parking fees. The role of the road network monitoring information platform is to achieve consistent actions and information exchange. Transport authorities at all levels and road management agencies shall strengthen communication and coordination with the people's government, public security, hospitals, and scenic spot management departments along the toll roads, give full play to the road police co-operation model, and establish an inter-departmental joint emergency response mechanism. Proper handling of all types of emergencies. To coordinate the public security departments, additional policemen should be deployed to the toll collection stations around the major highways around the large and medium-sized cities that are prone to traffic jams, as well as the toll stations near the scenic spots, in order to strengthen traffic guidance and order control.