The inter-provincial traffic flow in Hunan and Guangdong will exceed 5.3 million! Returned netizens joked： the new year’s goods are still on the road.
The curtain has been raised in Spring Festival travel rush. As in previous years, many Hunan people who work and live in Guangdong choose to leave for their hometown one week before the Spring Festival. Someone made a good strategy a few days before departure, but the road still had to be diverted in time; Some people are lucky to have a smooth road, and some people joke that "all the new year’s goods in the car have been eaten" and have not arrived home yet.
According to the big data of Hunan high-speed traffic police, the inter-provincial traffic warning of Hunan and Guangdong during Spring Festival travel rush this year will exceed 5.3 million, up about 6% year-on-year, and will account for nearly 30% of the total inter-provincial traffic of Hunan expressways during Spring Festival travel rush. In addition to receiving information shared by relatives and friends, Hunan high-speed traffic police also suggested avoiding the easy-to-slow road section and returning home safely for the New Year.
Someone made a home strategy a few days in advance and diverted the road in time.
On January 13th, Mr. Chen, who works in Guangzhou, got up early: he got up before dawn at 4 am. This is an important day. Mr. Chen will take his family back to his hometown in Changde, Hunan for the New Year.
A few days ago, Mr. Chen’s friend suggested that he choose the Erguang Expressway. Mr. Chen immediately shared the news with netizens. He posted on his video account: "The fellow villagers who returned to Changde in Guangzhou, the route to go home without traffic jams has been worked out for everyone! Guangzhou leads the Erguang Expressway, and when you get on the Erguang Expressway, you immediately lead the direction of Changning. After you get on S61, you will lead the direction of Yiyang, and when you get on the Huachang Expressway, you will lead the direction of Hanshou. In this "Home Raiders", Mr. Chen did not forget to remind that "the old driver suggested leaving around 5 am".
However, when Mr. Chen set out, he searched with navigation software and found that Erguang Expressway was slowing down, so he immediately diverted to Guanglian Expressway.
△ At 9 o’clock in the morning, it was foggy, and Mr. Chen shared the road information with netizens (Photo source: Mr. Chen)
"After the high speed, I found that there was another problem, and there was a slowdown. I am now on the Wushen Expressway. " Mr. Chen said.
At 12 o’clock in the morning on the 13th, Mr. Chen came to the Chaling service area of Wushen Expressway to stop and rest. During the break, he did not forget to pay attention to the real-time road conditions: "There seems to be an accident ahead, and it may take a long time." Mr. Chen said. He intends to improvise and decide the route according to the road conditions. At 7 o’clock that night, Mr. Chen’s family returned to Changde’s home, one hour later than he expected.
At 10 o’clock on the morning of January 12, Mr. Shang from Xiangtan was driving through Rucheng County, Chenzhou City. The car slowed down, and the video he released recorded this picture: on the expressway, the cars kept driving at a low speed. The car in front lights up the brake lights from time to time, prompting the vehicles behind to slow down in time.
Mr. Shang is engaged in fishing gear business in Huizhou, Guangdong. At about 5 am on January 12, he took his family from Huizhou and went all the way home. They experienced a slow journey in Chenzhou for about 1 hour and a distance of about 5 kilometers, but "they arrived home at 3 pm and felt that the road conditions this year were better than in previous years." Mr. Shang said.
Since Spring Festival travel rush, the traffic flow from Guangdong Expressway to Hunan has continued to run at a high level.
The reporter’s search found that many netizens shared their experiences of going home. Some netizens joked that "they are still on the road after eating all the new year’s goods", and some netizens briefly got off the bus when passing through the slow road, and even took pictures of basketball activities.
Many people will patiently answer questions from strangers: which highway is more convenient? What are the real-time road conditions like? Where is going slow? Below the video released by Mr. Chen, many Changde fellow villagers shared their experiences of returning home: "Depart at 8: 30 in the evening, arrive at Shimen at 9: 00 the next morning, and stop at four or five service areas to have a rest in the toilet". Some netizens also said: "Look at your suggestion when you return!" They gave each other their blessings, hoping to go home safely and have a good year.
The reporter learned from Hunan high-speed traffic police that the early warning of inter-provincial traffic between Hunan and Guangdong will exceed 5.3 million in Spring Festival travel rush in 2008, up about 6% year-on-year, which will account for nearly 30% of the total inter-provincial traffic of Hunan expressways during Spring Festival travel rush. At the same time, according to the road traffic monitoring, since Spring Festival travel rush, the traffic flow from Guangdong Expressway to Hunan has been running at a high level. At present, the daily average traffic volume of four inter-provincial sections of expressways connecting Hunan and Guangdong, namely, Xuguang, Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao, Wushen and Erguang, exceeds 170,000 vehicles, which have far exceeded the design traffic volume of related expressways in Hunan. Among them, Xuguang, Wushen and Erguang expressways are mainly cars, and Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao expressway is mainly trucks.
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It is understood that compared with the Guangdong Expressway, the construction standard of Hunan Expressway is not high, and it is generally a two-way four-lane section. The Hunan sections of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao, Wushen and Erguang Expressway connected with Guangdong are all two-way four-lane sections. Xu-Guang Expressway is connected with Guangdong as a two-way six-lane section. Taking Chenzhou as an example, the two lanes of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway and the three lanes of Xuguang Expressway in the south-north direction all need five lanes of traffic flow, which forms a reverse trumpet effect in inter-provincial sections. Only Wushen Expressway has two lanes butting two lanes.
At the same time, due to the terrain of Hunan, which is subject to the mountainous and hilly landforms, the proportion of highway bridges and tunnels is high, and the road safety is not high, which is prone to traffic accidents. In addition, there are fewer lanes of Hunan Expressway, and traffic flows such as long uphill sections and service area hubs are divided into confluence points, and congestion is easy to form behind failed or accident lanes. Vehicles passing through Hunan northbound can choose to pass through Jiangxi northbound and go to Hubei, Henan, etc. according to the traffic conditions of the road network. If you travel to the northwest, you can also choose to travel in Guangxi and Guizhou.
Xiaoxiang morning herald reporter Ren Wanwan
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