The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end, and various modes of transportation such as highways, shipping, and aviation welcome the return peak.
According to data from the 2024 Comprehensive Transport Spring Festival Work Class, on February 15 (the 21st day of the Spring Festival, the sixth day of the first lunar month), the cross-regional flow of people in the whole society was 315.38 million, an increase of 2.7% month-on-month, an increase of 2.1% over the same period in 2023, and an increase of 21.8% over the same period in 2019. Among them, the flow of people on highways reached 296.54 million, an increase of 22.4% over the same period in 2019.
At about 12 o'clock in the morning of the 15th, Ms. Hu and her husband drove from Yueyang, Hunan Province to Shenzhen, but due to the heavy traffic on the road, they still did not leave the Hunan provincial border after 24 hours.
She complained: "This trip is too hard, we don't expect to be able to go to Shenzhen during the day, we just want to be able to arrive before going to bed." ”
At the end of the Spring Festival holiday, there is a return congestion on the expressway. Photo/Jiupai News Yang Zhen
[1] The highway return is congested, and some people have not left the province for a day
Ms. Hu and her husband are both from Yueyang, Hunan, and when they returned to Hunan from Shenzhen a year ago, they basically did not encounter large-scale congestion along the way, and they thought that the situation would be optimistic about returning early on the sixth day of the first lunar month, but they did not leave Hunan 24 hours after departure.
Ms. Hu said that after they set off, they went to Zhuzhou to pick up two friends, and then drove from Zhuzhou to Shenzhen, usually Yueyang only takes two hours to drive to Zhuzhou, this time it took nearly three hours, "there are so many cars, the speed can not be driven at all, only seventy or eighty yards on the highway, and the weather is not good." ”
In order to avoid congestion on the highway, Ms. Hu and her entourage chose to take the national highway, but found that the national highway was also more difficult to drive.
"There are a lot of mountain roads, there is a lot of fog, twisting and turning, and it is dark and dark when you drive to the back, and you can't see clearly. She said.
In the early morning of February 16, Ms. Hu and her husband stopped to rest. Photo / provided by the interviewee
Jiupai News noticed that near the end of the Spring Festival, many sections of the expressway were also congested in the early morning. Taking the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway as an example, at about 0:00 a.m. on the 16th, the road conditions of many road sections were still displayed in red, and traffic accidents occurred in some areas.
Along the way, Ms. Hu found that some tram owners simply squinted for a while while charging and rushed overnight, "first, there will be more expenses when resting, and secondly, there are more people resting at night, so hurry up while there are fewer cars on the road." ”
For safety reasons, Ms. Hu and her husband booked a hotel to rest. On the morning of the 16th, they continued to hurry, but they still encountered congestion, "I feel that the congestion has not been alleviated, I am afraid that I will not be able to reach Shenzhen before dark today, and I pray that I can arrive before going to bed." ”
[2] There was a long queue at the high-speed charging station, and the owner of the tram said that he wanted to change back to a petrol car
On congested highway sections, tram drivers also face the problem of queuing for charging. Some areas were affected by rain, snow and windy weather, and the charging pile was damaged.
At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 15th, Jiupai News saw that car owners had lined up at the charging piles in multiple service areas of Wujian Expressway, and several tram owners got together to chat.
The owner of the car, Mr. Yang (pseudonym), has been waiting for charging for 3 hours in the high-speed service area, and is a little emotional, "I want to change the oil car, the tram usually runs in the city, and it is okay to run online car-hailing, but the high-speed is still troublesome." ”
Mr. Yang said that his car only had 30 kilometers of battery life left, so he found the nearest service area to charge, but he did not expect that all the four charging guns in the service area could not be charged normally, and then he called the maintenance number, "I waited here for a long time, kept calling, and couldn't go anywhere." ”
After 3 hours of waiting, the charging pile in the service area finally resumed normal charging. At this time, there is a long queue of trams waiting to be charged, and trams are entering the service area one after another.
According to the maintenance personnel of the charging pile in the service area, due to the destruction of the insulation layer of the charging cable buried in the ground, the charging pile in some areas along the way can not be supplied in time, "The damage is a 10,000-volt high-voltage cable, it is recommended that the owner fully charge it before departure, or find a nearby charging pile, which is more difficult to repair, and may have to wait a few days to be completely repaired." ”
Some car owners also complained about the high price of charging on the highway, and Mr. Liu, who was charging in the service area, reluctantly said, "There is no way, I only have 15 kilometers left." ”
According to the 2024 high-speed service area charging price publicity table posted in the Xiangkou service area of Wujian Expressway, the charging price in a day is divided into 4 sections according to the charging time, and the price is composed of electricity and service fees, of which the service fee is fixed at 0.6 yuan/kWh, the comprehensive maximum is 1.7818 yuan per kWh, and the lowest is 0.9693 yuan per kWh.
Bulletin board for the charging price of electric cars on the highway section. Photo/Jiupai News Yang Zhen
Depending on the charging power, the charging speed will be slowed down when multiple trams are charged at the same time. Ms. Hu said that she had not been able to charge on the highway when she returned, "There are still a lot of people in line, and there are few charging guns on the highway, so we found a charging pile outside." ”
[3] Haikou ferry tourists queue up and return by changing 4 means of transportation in a day
In addition to the congestion on the return journey by road, tourists returning from Hainan also face difficulties in leaving the island.
At 5:30 p.m. on the 16th, Ms. Xu, who had just landed at Wuhan Tianhe Airport, still had lingering palpitations when she talked about the experience of setting off from Hainan Island the night before, "It's not that I almost couldn't come back, but I almost couldn't come back." ”
According to Ms. Xu's original plan, she arrived in Zhanjiang by ferry at about 6 p.m. on the 15th, but she queued up in the port for four hours due to too many passengers and foggy weather, and did not arrive until about 10 p.m. ”
Ms. Xu lined up in the waiting hall. Photo / provided by the interviewee
Later, she took a private car to the train station, but the road was congested, and when she arrived at the train station, there were less than 30 minutes left before the boarding time, "I ran like I was running, I wanted to fly to the platform," and when Ms. Xu ran on the train, she was "lucky" to find that the train was delayed for 23 minutes.
After arriving in Maoming, Guangdong, Ms. Xu waited at the station for two hours before taking the high-speed train to Guangzhou, and then transferred to the subway to Guangzhou Baiyun Airport. After a short rest, she took a flight back to Wuhan at about 1 p.m. on the 16th.
To her delight, she was told to upgrade to first class for free after boarding, "I heard that there seemed to be a lot of passengers who didn't make it to the plane, and the seats were still a little empty." ”
Ms. Xu believes that the main reason for the smooth return trip this time is that there is enough time between the return tickets purchased, "almost all the high-speed trains from Zhanjiang to Guangzhou, including nearby cities such as Maoming, Zhongshan and Jiangmen, have to be grabbed." ”
Ms. Zhu (pseudonym), who came to Hainan Island by car, did not return so smoothly. She and her family drove to Hainan Island by tram, and when they left the island, they found that all the tram tickets for the tram from February 15 to 25 were "not available", which means that they would continue to stay on Hainan Island for at least 10 days.
According to the news released by Haikou at 5 p.m. on February 16, the current three ports to be ferry has been saturated, about 4,600 vehicles to be ferried, and it still takes more than 5 hours to evacuate.
Previously, considering that trams are prone to spontaneous combustion after high temperature exposure, on December 6, 2023, the Hainan Maritime Safety Administration of the Hainan Provincial Department of Transportation issued the "Operation Guide for Ro-Ro Transportation of New Energy Vehicles in the Qiongzhou Strait", requiring that the number of new energy vehicles carried on each voyage shall not exceed 10% of the ship's vehicle quota (calculated as small cars), and the total number shall not exceed 18.
The price of air tickets from Sanya to the island has also soared. Jiupai News retrieval air ticket purchase platform found that the ticket price from February 16 (the seventh day of the Lunar New Year) to February 21 was more than 5,000 yuan, and some air ticket prices have exceeded 10,000 yuan.
Jiupai News reporter Yang Zhen
Edited by Xiao Jie
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[Source: Jiupai News]
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