Chongqing Transportation Bureau responds to “the toll was charged for the return of the rescue team”: the emergency bureau will refund
Recently, the Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue Team returned to the disaster and was charged for tolls by the Chongqing Wuzhou Wuqiao Toll Station, which caused a heated discussion among netizens.
The rescue certificate issued by the People's Government of Ganlong Town to the Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue Team. Photo courtesy of Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue Team
On July 14, Luo Mingwen, the captain of the Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue Team, told Peng Mei News (www.thepaper.cn) that the Chongqing Municipal Emergency Management Bureau and the Chongqing Municipal Transportation Bureau have been actively coordinating the aforementioned charging incidents. "The fee refund process is in progress." Luo Mingwen said that the relevant government departments are already actively refunding.
On the same day, Peng Mei News learned from the Chongqing Municipal Transportation Bureau that after the Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue Team was charged for vehicles, the Municipal Emergency Management Bureau will determine the nature of the rescue and disaster relief vehicles before the Municipal Transportation Bureau can refund the fees.
According to previous media reports, at 22:00 on July 9, Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue and Rescue Team presented the rescue certificate issued by the local government of Ganlong Town, Songtao County, Tongren City, at the Wuqiao Toll Station in Wanzhou District, Chongqing City, trying to get free of charge Rejected when passing this toll gate. The rescue team members had no choice but to release it after paying a toll of 496 yuan.
A member of the Chongqing Blue Sky Rescue Team said that the staff at the toll station said that the rescue team’s vehicles did not belong to the type of white-licensed military, police cars, fire trucks and some special mission vehicles, and they were not within the scope of vehicles that should be exempted. Implement free passage. The rescue team member said that this rescue certificate was released in Guizhou province, and other districts and counties in Chongqing were also approved. A rescue vehicle in the same industry had passed through the Youyang toll station in Chongqing.
As soon as the aforementioned incident was reported, it caused heated discussion on the Internet. Some netizens said, "It should be free, don't let the rescuers feel cold." But some netizens said, "For the frontline toll collectors, they work in accordance with the rules and regulations. Many regulations still require orders from superiors to do it. The most basic level Employees have no right to change."
On July 13, the official WeChat public account of the road network management center of Chongqing Expressway Group Co., Ltd. released a policy interpretation saying that Article 7 of the State Council's "Toll Road Management Regulations" stipulates: approved by the transportation department of the State Council or the people's government of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government Vehicles performing rescue and disaster relief tasks are exempt from vehicle tolls. The object of the reduction and exemption is through the information declaration and registration, and the review and approval, or the rescue and disaster relief vehicles approved by the people's government at the provincial level. Aiming at the social forces in the province that rescue and voluntarily participate in emergency rescue and disaster relief, when passing the toll station, they adopt the method of first receiving and then retreating.