The curtain of the Spring Festival has begun. As in previous years, many Hunan people who work and live in Guangdong choose to leave for their hometowns a week before the Spring Festival. Some people made a strategy a few days before departure, but they still had to be diverted in time on the road; Some people are lucky to make the way through, while others joke that "the New Year goods on the car are all eaten" have not yet arrived home.
According to the big data research and judgment of the Hunan Expressway Traffic Police, the number of cross-provincial traffic warnings in Hunan and Guangdong during this year's Spring Festival will exceed 5.3 million, an increase of about 6% year-on-year, and will account for nearly 30% of the total inter-provincial traffic of Hunan Expressway during the Spring Festival. In addition to receiving information about returning home with relatives and friends, the Hunan Expressway Traffic Police also advised to avoid the easy road section and return home safely for the New Year.
Someone made a homecoming strategy a few days in advance, and the road was changed in time
On January 13, Mr. Chen, who works in Guangzhou, woke up early in the morning: he woke up before dawn at 4 a.m. This is an important day, and Mr. Chen is going to take his family back to his hometown in Changde, Hunan for the Chinese New Year.
A few days earlier, Mr. Chen's friend suggested that he choose the Erguang Expressway. Mr. Chen immediately shared the news with netizens, and he posted it on his video account: "Fellow villagers in Guangzhou returning to Changde, the route to go home without traffic jams has been formulated for everyone!" Guangzhou guides the Erguang Expressway, immediately leads to the direction of Changning after getting on the Erguang Expressway, then leads to the direction of Yiyang after getting on S61, and then leads the direction of Hanshou after getting on the Huachang Expressway." On this "home strategy", Mr. Chen also did not forget to remind that "the old driver recommends leaving around 5 a.m."
However, when Mr. Chen used navigation software to search, he found that the Erguang Expressway was slowing down, so he immediately changed the route and entered the Guanglian Expressway.
△ At 9 a.m. that day, the fog rose, and Mr. Chen shared road information with netizens (Source: Mr. Chen)
"After getting on the highway, I found that there was another problem, and there was a slowdown. I'm now on the Wushen Expressway. Mr. Chen said.
At about 12 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, Mr. Chen came to the Wushen Expressway Chaling Service Area to stop and rest. During the break, he also paid attention to the real-time road conditions: "There seems to be an accident ahead, and the waiting time may be longer. Mr. Chen said. He intends to adapt to the situation and decide the route according to the road conditions. At about 7 p.m. that night, Mr. Chen's family returned to Changde's home, one hour later than he expected.
At about 10 a.m. on January 12, Mr. Shang of Xiangtan was driving through Rucheng County, Chenzhou City. The vehicle slowed down, and he posted a video recording this image: on the highway, the vehicles are driving at a low speed. The car in front lights up the brake lights from time to time to prompt the vehicle behind to slow down in time.
Mr. Shang is engaged in fishing gear business in Huizhou, Guangdong. At about 5 a.m. on January 12, he set off with his family from Huizhou and headed north all the way home. They experienced a slow drive of about one hour and about 5 kilometers in the Chenzhou section, but "arrived home at 3 p.m., and I feel that the road conditions are better this year than in previous years." Mr. Shang said.
Since the Spring Festival, the traffic flow from the Guangdong Expressway north into Hunan has continued to run at a high level
The reporter's search found that many netizens shared their experiences of returning home. Some netizens joked that "I finished eating all the New Year goods and was still on the road", and some netizens briefly got out of the car and let go of the wind when passing through the slow road, and even took pictures of basketball activities.
Many people will patiently answer questions from strange netizens: Which highway is more convenient? What about real-time traffic conditions? Where is the slowdown? Below the video released by Mr. Chen, many fellow villagers in Changde also shared their experiences of returning to their hometowns: "I left at 8:30 p.m., arrived at Shimen at 9:00 a.m. the next day, and stopped all the way to go to the toilet and drink water to rest." Some netizens said: "Look at your suggestions when you return!" "They wish each other well, and they all hope to go home safely and have a good year.
The reporter learned from the Hunan high-speed traffic police that the number of cross-provincial traffic warnings in Hunan and Guangdong during the Spring Festival will exceed 5.3 million, an increase of about 6% year-on-year, and will account for nearly 30% of the total inter-provincial traffic of the Hunan Expressway during the Spring Festival. At the same time, according to the monitoring of road surface flow, since the Spring Festival, the traffic flow from the Guangdong Expressway north into Hunan has continued to run at a high level. At present, the average daily traffic volume of the interprovincial sections of the expressways connecting Xuguang, Beijing, Hong Kong and Macao, Wushen and Erguang exceeds 170,000 units, all of which have far exceeded the design traffic of relevant expressways in Hunan. Among them, the Xuguang, Wushen, and Erguang expressways are mainly small cars, and the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao expressways are mainly trucks.
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It is understood that compared with Guangdong Expressway, the construction standards of Hunan Expressway are not high, generally two-way 4-car road sections, and the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao, Wushen and Erguang Expressway Hunan section connected to Guangdong are two-way 4-car road sections. The Xuguang Expressway is connected to Guangdong as a two-way 6-vehicle road section. Taking the jurisdiction of Chenzhou as an example, the 2 lanes of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and the 3 lanes of the Xuguang Expressway from south to north require traffic flow of 5 lanes, forming a reverse horn effect in the interprovincial section, and only the Wushen Expressway is 2 lanes docking 2 lanes.
At the same time, the topography of Hunan is based on mountainous and hilly landforms, the proportion of highway bridges and tunnels is high, the nature of road safety is not high, and traffic accidents are prone to occur, coupled with fewer lanes of Hunan Expressway, long uphill sections, service area hub interconnection and other traffic flow diversion points, as well as failure or accident lanes are easy to form congestion. Vehicles passing through Hunan and going north can choose to go through the northwest of Jiangxi to Hubei and Henan according to the traffic conditions of the road network. If you are going to the northwest, you can also choose to travel in Guangxi and Guizhou.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Ren Benwan