2022 Chongqing Spring Festival Expressway Travel Guide

The annual Spring Festival travel rush is the busiest time for highways, and it is also popular every year because of the spectacular traffic jams on the highway. This year’s Spring Festival travel rush will start from January 17, 2022, and will last until 2022. Ends on February 25th, ***40 days.

On January 14, upstream journalists learned from the Chongqing Expressway 2022 Spring Festival Transport Work Press Conference that according to predictions, the city’s entire road network traffic volume will reach 45.29 million vehicles during the Spring Festival Transport, with an average daily 1.132 million vehicles, an increase of 0.5% compared with the same period during the Spring Festival last year and an increase of 20.6% compared with normal days.

During the 2022 Spring Festival travel period, let’s take a look at this “Travel Guide” on how to avoid traffic jams on highways. 1. Forecast of road conditions during the Spring Festival travel season

February 6 will be the peak of single-day travel

According to predictions, the traffic flow on the entire road network during the Spring Festival travel period will reach 45.29 million vehicles, with a daily average of 1.132 million vehicles (Passenger cars account for about 86.7% and trucks account for about 13.3%), an increase of 0.5% compared with the same period of Spring Festival last year and an increase of 20.6% compared with normal days.

It is estimated that February 6 (the sixth day of the first lunar month) will be the peak traffic volume, reaching 1.938 million vehicles. During the Spring Festival travel period, the average daily inbound and outbound traffic of the entire road network was 243,000 vehicles, an increase of 0.5% compared to the same period last year and 42.6% higher than usual. Among them, the average daily inbound traffic reached 117,000 vehicles and the average daily outbound traffic volume was 126,000 vehicles.

According to analysis, the overall traffic flow of the expressway network during the Spring Festival in 2022 will show an "inverted V trend."

After January 17, as the Spring Festival approaches, the traffic volume of the entire road network will increase day by day to an average of about 1 million vehicles per day. From January 30 (New Year’s Eve), the traffic volume of the road network will continue to rise until The highest single-day travel peak was reached on February 6, and the traffic volume dropped rapidly from February 7. As the public’s awareness of traveling at different times and peaks increases, the return traffic volume during the Spring Festival will stabilize. 2. Six major road blocks that are prone to congestion

Citizens can detour in this way

Based on previous years’ experience, the Expressway Group has sorted out the “six major road blocks that are prone to congestion” and detour routes during the Spring Festival. When planning a trip, you can plan ahead and choose detour routes appropriately. 3. Top Ten Congestion-prone Toll Stations

Citizens can try to avoid peak hours when traveling

Chongqing Expressway sorted out the "Top Ten Congestion-prone Toll Stations" and their large traffic volumes during the Spring Festival travel period During the period, when passing the following toll stations, car owners should try to avoid peak hours. When congestion occurs, you can choose to bypass the nearby toll stations to get on and off the expressway to avoid waiting in line on the main highway.

In addition, during the Spring Festival travel period, the G6911 Anlai Expressway from Kuimen to Kangle, Fengxi Road, out of the city will be occupied for construction. At that time, half of K173+900-K178+400 from Kangle to Kuimen in the direction of the city will be closed, and K178+400-K173+900 from Kuimen to Kangle in the outbound direction will be single-lane and double-passage. Car owners should drive carefully when entering the construction road area, reduce their speed and change lanes in advance as instructed, do not change lanes at will, do not fight for lanes, and pass in a civilized and orderly manner. 4. Convenience reminder

When entering the service area, you need to wear a mask, take your temperature, and check your health code and travel code

In order to continue to ensure the safety and smoothness of highways during the Spring Festival, Chongqing Expressway Group Plan in advance and go all out to promote various Spring Festival travel tasks to ensure that the public can travel safely and conveniently and celebrate the New Year comfortably.

In terms of epidemic prevention and control, we will secure the entrance and exit channels of the service area, regularly disinfect public places, carry out regular testing of the public environment, and use big data to scientifically and accurately prevent and control the epidemic. .

It is worth mentioning that at the entrance of the service area, dedicated personnel will be assigned to conduct body temperature measurement, health code, and itinerary code inspection. Drivers and passengers must pass the inspection and wear masks before entering. The service area provides convenient services such as wireless Internet access, information inquiry, mobile phone charging, sports and leisure, and maternal and child rooms. There are 12 pairs of driver homes on the entire road network for truck drivers to rest, bathe, do laundry, etc.

Up to now, 77 pairs of service areas on the entire Chongqing expressway network have set up temperature detection and health code inspection points, 77 pairs of service areas have set up medium- and high-risk dedicated passages, and 17 pairs of service areas have set up medium- and high-risk mobile bathroom.

At the same time, the ray highway lighting project in the central urban area of ??Chongqing Expressway will be accelerated, involving 8 expressway sections within the city circle, including Chengyu Road, Yulin Road, and the G75 Lanhai Expressway Chongqing-Guizhou Section, *** With a total mileage of 46.66 kilometers, all lights will be turned on before the Spring Festival in 2022, achieving full coverage of street lights on the open sections of the Ray Expressway in the central city.

In terms of emergency smoothness, more than 600 people are deployed at toll stations across the entire road network to guard ETC lanes, and more than 500 emergency toll collection machines are equipped. During the Spring Festival Transport, a total of 128 obstacle clearance and rescue points were set up on the entire road network, with 362 various types of obstacle clearance and rescue equipment.

Citizens who encounter travel problems on the road can seek help by calling the Chongqing Expressway 023-12122 service hotline; consult and inquire through the real-time traffic section of Sina Weibo @Chongqing Expressway 12122 and the portal website of Chongqing Expressway Group Co., Ltd. .

Source: Upstream News