Tomorrow will start to enter the three-day (June 22-24) Dragon Boat Festival holiday, since this year's Spring Festival, every holiday, citizens and tourists travel and travel enthusiasm is very high, basically two days before the holiday will appear a high traffic trend.
Starting at 3 pm today, some of the expressways out of Shanghai have already shown red congestion ↓↓↓
On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the command center of the Municipal Transportation Commission released the traffic trend of the holiday, and the traffic police corps of the Municipal Public Security Bureau released the study and judgment of the holiday road traffic safety situation, making some targeted tips for everyone's holiday travel. It should be reminded that during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the highway network does not implement the free passage policy for passenger cars.
The command center of the Municipal Transportation Commission predicts that the Dragon Boat Festival holiday will mainly be short-distance self-driving trips around Shanghai and suburbs, and the average daily traffic of the city's expressway network will be 1.40-1.45 million vehicles, an increase of 3%-7% over the same period in 2021 and 22%-27% over the same period in 2019.
The peak travel on the first day will occur from 9 to 11 am on the 22nd, and the traffic of some ray expressways out of the city, the new city and the ramps around the scenic spots will increase significantly. From 14:00 to 17:00 on the last day, the entry section of the ray expressway, such as G2 Beijing-Shanghai, G40 Shanghai-Shaanxi Yangtze River Bridge and Tunnel, G50 Shanghai-Chongqing, G60 Shanghai-Kunming and other directions into the city, will be slowed or congested.
It is estimated that the average daily traffic of highways and surface road provincial border crossings is 720,000-760,000 vehicles. The relevant crossings of popular scenic spots have increased by about 20% to 40% compared with weekday weekends, equivalent to about 80% of Labor Day in 2023.
Among them, the G40 Shanghai-Shaanxi Expressway Yangtze River Tunnel, which is "blocked every festival", has an average daily traffic of 80,000 vehicles, an increase of about 19% over the same period in 2021. The peak traffic on the first day also occurred between 9 and 11 a.m., with an average hourly traffic of 5,500 vehicles. On the last day, the peak traffic occurred between 2 pm and 5 pm, with an average hourly traffic of about 5,300 vehicles.
In addition, the average daily traffic of expressways is expected to be 1.95 to 1.98 million vehicles, an increase of less than 2% compared with the same period in 2021. It is expected that on the first day, due to the concentrated traffic flow of the ray expressway out of the city, there will be long-term congestion in some sections, such as congestion in the direction of S5 Hujia Jiading, and congestion will occur from Guangyue Road to Shanghai-Jiading Interchange outside the Central Ring Road; Affected by the congestion in the direction of G2 Shanghai-Nanjing Jiangsu, the traffic flow will be slow on the Tongchuan Road to Wuning interchange ramp outside the Central Ring Road; Affected by the congestion in the direction of G50 Shanghai-Chongqing Jiangsu, Jiangsu Road to Yanxi Interchange, Yanxi Interchange to Hongxu Road, and Hongxu Road to Hongqiao Hub on the north side of Yan'an all experienced varying degrees of congestion.
According to the traffic safety situation during this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday released by the Traffic Police Corps of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, there are still four types of road risks that are more prominent this year:
The risk of road accidents is greater. Due to the superposition of the passenger flow of holiday family visits, short-distance tours, and city tours, the travel period is more concentrated. According to statistics, traffic accidents during the Dragon Boat Festival in the past three years have increased year by year, except for 2022. This holiday is expected to increase the risk of traffic accidents.
Traffic accidents in suburban areas are relatively frequent. According to statistics, during the Dragon Boat Festival in the past three years, there were relatively many casualties in Pudong and Songjiang.
Serious traffic offences remain a major contributor to road traffic accidents. After analyzing the traffic accidents during the Dragon Boat Festival in previous years, there were many accidents caused by motor vehicles due to traffic violations such as "failure to yield in accordance with regulations" and "rear-end collision". Among the modes of transportation caused by fatal accidents, non-motor vehicles accounted for 56.5%, of which electric bicycles caused the most accidents, accounting for 39.1% of the total, and 69.2% of the number of non-motor vehicle accidents. In addition, alcohol-related violations still occurred during the Dragon Boat Festival in the past three years, of which a total of 549 drunk driving and drunk driving violations were seized, causing 14 traffic accidents.
Frequent precipitation in rainy weather needs to be paid attention to. In rainy weather, the road surface is wet and slippery affects the machine and the non-vehicle braking distance, which is easy to cause accidents such as motor vehicle rear-end collision and non-motor vehicle slipping, and short-term heavy rainfall in local areas is also easy to cause rollover accidents caused by uncontrolled body attitude, which has a certain impact on road traffic.
Some travel safety tips
Drive safely and civilized, and put an end to illegal behavior. The Dragon Boat Festival coincided with the end of the middle school and college entrance examinations, and the enthusiasm of citizens to choose short-distance travel was unprecedented. At that time, the surge in traffic flow in the city will further pressure the accident prevention and control situation, and it is expected that the risk of rear-end collisions and jamming accidents caused by road congestion will increase significantly.
In addition, according to the forecast of the city's meteorological department, this year's Dragon Boat Festival holiday is mostly rainy weather, the climate is sultry, the road surface is slippery, and it is easy to produce fatigue and irritability when driving. In case of rain, be sure to drive cautiously and reduce the speed to control the distance. At the same time, keep in mind that "driving without alcohol, travel is safe", and avoid drunk driving machines and non-vehicles.
Pay attention to the publicity platform and do a good job of travel planning. During the holidays, citizens can understand the information of the flow of people in scenic spots, business districts and other places in advance, avoid eating "closed doors" due to the flow of places and other situations, and deal with the problem of parking difficulties caused by large passenger flows in scenic spots, business districts and other large passenger flows, should make early planning, rationally use the surrounding parking lots, cooperate with the command of the police on duty and auxiliary police, and improve parking efficiency.
Accidents are handled quickly to avoid secondary collisions. During holidays, some key highways in the city will set up "police and security linkage" mobile workstations to carry out the work of fast handling, quick evacuation and quick compensation of traffic accidents. For accidents where "the car can move and the person is not injured", through the "fast and easy to compensate" WeChat public account, "traffic management 12123" and other online fast methods, quickly evacuate the scene after fixing the evidence, and then carry out accident handling and follow-up insurance claims, especially in the event of an accident on the highway, be sure to operate in accordance with the "nine-character aphorism" (car pulls over, people evacuate, that is, alarm) to strengthen their own safety protection awareness, and at the same time, also prevent secondary accidents and long-term, large-scale congestion.
Comprehensive: Shanghai release, 4th focus Shanghai traffic police micro-release