There is no doubt that the five-day holiday of May Day in 2024 will inevitably cause congestion on the highway.
So why don't you gamble your luck on the highway?
The author suggests that you can stagger the peak travel, every small long holiday will appear highway congestion and national highways, provincial highways are unobstructed scene, the purpose of taking the highway is to save time and ensure driving safety, if the highway at this time is not smooth enough, there is no need to get together.
At the same time, the direction of holiday travel is basically towards the scenic spots, and the roads connecting these scenic spots are often routes that are not often taken by commercial vehicles, so in addition to the congestion on the road sections close to the scenic spots, most of the road sections in the entire route will be unimpeded.
Staggered travel does not simply mean avoiding the highway, but also choosing a time to decide whether to pass or not.
The first and last days of a long holiday tend to be the most heavily trafficked, as the second to fourth day tends to be more congested because travel and return trips are concentrated on these two days.
In addition to national and provincial roads, some county and township roads can also be considered, and the traffic volume on these sections is often smaller during the holidays, but many natural scenery is located along these roads. There are even some sections of the road that cut into the scenic area, and there will always be more gains from walking more of these sections.
Let's say you can only go at high speeds
If you can't plan your trip around the highway or only the highway, you need to learn to "anticipate congestion" when traveling.
Highway congestion is generally caused by traffic accidents, but during the holidays there will always be a high frequency of "ghost traffic jams", which means that there is no accident in front of you but there will still be congestion, and a jam is several kilometers, what is the reason for this? The main reason is that a large number of novice drivers rush in during the free passage of the expressway, these drivers lack the correct understanding of safe speed, and they often think that the lower the speed, the safer;
Unfortunately, many novice drivers do not understand this truth, so it is inevitable that they will be parallel to other vehicles when driving.
There is a big difference between the speed limit standard of family cars and passenger trucks on the highway, the maximum speed limit of family cars is 120km/h, the maximum speed of passenger cars is only 100km/h, some trucks are quite, some are slightly lower, and some trucks can not exceed 80km/h at the maximum; And if there are similar new novice cars in the rear traffic, the traffic will get longer and longer, which is the main factor causing the "ghost traffic jam".
To sum up, when driving on the highway must learn to predict, if there is a low-speed family car in front of you, the correct way to do this is to accelerate overtaking, even if it is a short small speeding; car speeding within 10% is not punished, more than 10% but less than 20% is only fined and not scored, so even if for overtaking or driving safety to speed for a short time, the maximum should not exceed 10%.
All in all, when encountering low-speed vehicles, try to stay away, overtake the traffic flow of low-speed vehicles as soon as possible, do not get together with other vehicles, and maintain a sufficient safe distance from other vehicles is an effective way to avoid congestion.
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