Vendor stalls are dense, unbraided unicycles are creaking, big carriages are ringing loud, leather whips are crackling, coachmen are shouting, mules and horses are hissing, crowds dodging, colliding and shouting, chaotic... These pictures, which often appear in film and television dramas, really existed in Hefei in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. At the end of 1949, the Hefei Municipal Public Security Bureau set up a police brigade, under the jurisdiction of traffic, fire two squadrons, the two teams of the same police battalion, unified leadership, unified management, although each has a division of labor, but close cooperation, in the face of fire alarms, concentrated rectification of traffic accidents and other emergencies, are going all out, regardless of each other.
At the beginning of the establishment of the brigade, the municipal bureau promulgated the "Notice on the Firewood and Grass Market", the "Notice on Prohibiting unbraided Cars from Entering the City" and the "Management Measures for Mobile Vendors" in accordance with the "Interim Regulations on Traffic Sorting" of the Northern Anhui Public Security Bureau. Vegetable market, firewood and grass market, another site, fixed point management.
At that time, Cross Street, Fan Xiangkou, Sanxiaokou and Jiushi Bridge all set up fixed traffic checkpoints to manage cars, horses and pedestrians. Although the traffic police at that time only had a police post and a tin horn to command, they were very authoritative and spoke as soon as they spoke.
With the recovery and development of the national economy, urban-rural exchanges have gradually flourished, and the fixed population of cities has soared. When the people's republic of China was founded, Hefei had a population of only 60,000, and in 1952 it doubled to 130,000, and the rapid increase in floating population and vehicles brought great pressure to the narrow streets and caused great difficulties to traffic management.
In order to meet the needs of Hefei's economic development, according to the "Interim Rules for Traffic Management on Urban Roads" promulgated by the Ministry of Public Security, the municipal government established the Municipal Traffic Management Committee in 1954 and formulated the "Hefei Interim Management Measures for Non-Motor Vehicles", which registered flatbeds, rickshaws, mules, tricycles and bicycles and issued licenses. At the same time, the removal of steel pipes, steel bars, bricks, cement and other building materials piled up on the roadside, the relocation of mobile stalls that hinder traffic, the rearrangement of business residences, the city while improving the existing road capacity, in the case of very limited financial resources, widened the front street (now Changjiang Road) and other streets, played a major role in alleviating the problem of traffic congestion and congestion. In addition, the city has also organized a picket with the participation of nearly 500 mass activists to assist the traffic police in enforcing the law, giving heavy penalties to violators, and even pedestrians who walk to the left must be criticized and warned. Due to effective measures and strict law enforcement, Hefei, which was originally dirty and chaotic, has taken on a new look.