February 17 (the eighth day of the first lunar month) is the last day of the Spring Festival holiday, the Yangtze River Delta Railway ushered in the peak of the return passenger flow, the day is expected to send 2.66 million passengers, plans to open 568 additional passenger trains, 191 EMU trains to reconnect and marshalling, and make every effort to ensure the safety and orderly travel of passengers in the environment of large passenger flow.
As of February 16 (the seventh day of the first lunar month), since the Spring Festival, the Yangtze River Delta Railway has sent more than 52.4 million passengers, with an average of more than 2.38 million passengers per day, including more than 37.7 million passengers in the 15 days before the holiday, with an average of more than 2.5 million passengers per day, and more than 14.6 million passengers in the seven days of the Spring Festival holiday, with an average of nearly 2.1 million passengers per day. The passenger flow before and during the festival increased significantly compared with the same period in 2019.
From February 14 (the fifth day of the first lunar month), Fuyang, Bengbu, Hefei, Anqing, Xuzhou, Lianyungang and other places have increased the passenger flow significantly, as the key area of passenger transport after the holiday, Hefei, Fuyang, Bengbu, Xuzhou and other directly affiliated stations have made emergency plans in advance, and opened full ticket windows and security checks and ticket inspection channels. Additional personnel will be dispatched to guide key areas such as ticket halls, waiting rooms, and platforms.
In order to cope with the concentrated arrival of returning passengers, stations in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other places have dispatched additional staff at key locations such as passenger passages to guide and protect platforms, escalators, exit passages, exit entrances and other places where people are concentrated, so as to ensure the safety of passengers. In addition, the above-mentioned stations give full play to the advantages of transportation hubs, strengthen communication and contact with regional management committees, subways, buses and other departments, and do a good job in the arrival and evacuation of passengers.
Recently, the temperature in some areas has dropped significantly, and in order to provide a comfortable waiting environment for passengers, the railway department has encrypted the frequency of HVAC equipment inspection by station equipment maintenance personnel in Xuzhou, Nanjing, Bengbu, Fuyang, Shanghai and other places to ensure the comfort of air conditioning in the passenger waiting area.
In order to make the return journey more comfortable and convenient, stations in Wuhu, Fuyang, Huainan, Jinhua, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places dynamically encrypt the frequency of sanitation and cleaning according to the passenger flow; More than 50 stations such as Shanghai Hongqiao and Hefei South are equipped with express lockers at security checkpoints, where passengers can scan the code to send some prohibited or restricted items home.
The railway department reminds that after the start of the passenger flow after the holiday, many stations in the Yangtze River Delta ushered in a large passenger flow of departure and arrival, passengers entering and leaving the station should try to prepare valid tickets in advance, follow the guidance of the staff to enter and exit the station in an orderly manner, and do not turn back or stay in the process of the process; passengers with luggage can call the 12306 railway customer service number to try to find it; the traffic operation time of some cities with peak passenger flow in the Yangtze River Delta after the festival has been adjusted, and passengers can pay attention to the content released by the relevant local departments and properly plan the itinerary.
(Reporter Yao Dongming, Wu Rui)
Source: CCTV News