Qingming immediately around the high-speed free rules introduced one after another

The upcoming Qingming Expressway will become the third free holiday of the expressway. According to the inspection, more than a dozen provinces and cities have issued specific policies for free highways during the Ching Ming Festival.

An expert from the Highways Bureau of the Ministry of Transport told reporters yesterday that after the first two free days, local management departments and operating units had some experience, and holidays were becoming normal. However, due to the concentration of traffic during the Ching Ming period, the free trial is still facing a new test.

Holidays are free to enter the normal distance. There are less than a week away from Ching Ming Holidays. From the official website of the local government and the transportation department, most provinces and cities have already issued high speed and free related rules this week.

This year's Ching Ming Festival holiday will be closed for a total of 3 days. From 04:00 on April 4 to 24:00 on April 6, according to the relevant national free passage policy, the expressway will continue to be trolley (7 seats and 7 seats or less) during the above period. Implement free traffic. During the free period, a series of good practices such as lifting the rod and releasing it will continue.

According to the above-mentioned persons of the highway bureau, the large amount of congestion caused by the first free holiday of the Mid-Autumn National Day last year was a social criticism. Since then, the Ministry of Communications has asked all localities to hand over traffic conditions to the vehicles and summed up a series of lessons learned. With the first free experience, congestion and traffic conditions during the Spring Festival have improved. The person expects that as the experience of local policy implementation becomes more and more abundant, the public will travel more and more rationally on holidays, and the holidays will be on the right track for free in the future.

Under the framework of the national policy, many localities have made fine adjustments to the free policy in the local situation. For example, Shanghai will continue to set up a one-hour transitional period and set up a command office for the Qingming Festival to ensure the safety and smooth operation of the expressway network during the implementation of the free policy. The working headquarters introduced that this year's Ching Ming Holidays will continue to adopt the fast-pass mode of “free entrance, no export charge” for free vehicles. At the same time, the road administration departments combined the operating characteristics of the road network during the Ching Ming period, scheduled the time nodes for various safeguard work, and formulated the overall implementation plan.

In addition, attitudes of high-speed operators that have previously questioned the free policy are gradually changing. The market manager of a high-speed listed company who had previously called for free “losing money” in this newspaper yesterday expressed its willingness to support the holiday free policy and stated that with the continuous accumulation of experience, the ability to deal with a large number of free passengers on holidays is improving.

Toll road information is expected to be more transparent in the past year. First, the one-year toll highway special clean-up activities ended, and a series of overhaul fees and unauthorised toll collections were successfully remedied; afterwards, holiday highways were introduced free of charge. In spite of this, the remediation of charges is still accused of insufficient efforts.

Recently, Ministry of Transport spokesman He Jianzhong responded to the follow-up work on the special clean-up of toll highways at a regular press conference. He said that the Ministry of Transport is working with other four ministries and commissions to rush to amend the Toll Road Management Ordinance to further improve fees and charges. The mechanism for the formation of highway toll fees, the establishment of a franchise system to strengthen supervision, and the implementation of a more transparent system of toll highway information disclosure.

“This will help the public and management departments to increase supervision of toll highways, and enable operators and managers to further clarify their rights, obligations and responsibilities, fundamentally improve the toll road policy, and promote the healthy and sustainable development of road traffic. He Jianzhong introduced that not only that, but the Ministry of Communications will also deepen reform of the highway management system as one of the major tasks for this year.