China News Agency, Guangzhou, October 1st (Reporter Cai Minjie) October 1st is the first day of the National Day holiday. Guangdong ushered in a peak travel period. The traffic flow in the province and across provinces increased significantly, and many sections of the expressway network were monitored for serious congestion. "red light".

According to the real-time monitoring of the electronic travel map, the outbound expressways of Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area were congested that day.

Traffic flow of Humen Bridge at 15:00 on October 1.

Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Communications Group

  It can be seen from the electronic travel map that at 12:30 on October 1, Humen Bridge, Guangzhou (zhou) Shenzhen (Shenzhen) Yanjiang Expressway, Guangzhou (zhou) Fo (shan) Expressway, Er (Lianhot) Guangzhou (zhou) Expressway, Road sections such as Guangzhou (Zhou) Kun (Ming) Expressway were shown to be severely congested.

  During the National Day holiday (October 1 to 7), the policy of toll-free for passenger cars with seven seats or less will be implemented.

Since most of the public chose to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on the spot, the overall situation of the epidemic situation in Guangdong has stabilized. The Department of Transportation of Guangdong Province expects that during the National Day holiday, the short- and long-distance traffic on the expressway network will increase to a certain extent. During this period, the proportion of small passenger cars is relatively high It is estimated that the average daily traffic flow of expressways in the province is about 7.46 million, a year-on-year increase of 1.3%.

  As of 13:00 on October 1, the highway monitoring centers or traffic police in many places in Guangdong released the traffic flow conditions on the expressways. The increase led to slow traffic, and the traffic was about 1 km long; Zhuhai traffic police said that there was a large traffic flow in the direction of Yangjiang on the western coastal expressway, with about 180 vehicles every 5 minutes, which was doubled compared with normal days; the parking spaces in the Shangchuan service area (in the direction of Yangjiang) were nearly saturated. Implement intermittent closures.

The traffic flow of Fokai Expressway at 15:00 on October 1.

Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Communications Group

  The Guangzhou Municipal Transportation Administration announced on October 1 that it is expected that the traffic flow on the road network (two-way in and out of the city) will exceed 3 million that day.

The peak of the Guangzhou Airport Expressway out of the city is expected to be from 9:00 to 18:00 on the first day of the holiday (October 1), and the minimum speed may be lower than about 40 kilometers per hour.

  On September 30 (the day before the festival), outbound traffic began to appear. At 19:00 that day, in Guangzhou, the northbound Luogang section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway and the northbound Aotou section of the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway were slow. On October 1st, the Guangzhou Metro line network extended the service time for one hour; at the same time, in Shenzhen, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway Xinqiao Toll Station, the Yanjiang Expressway International Convention and Exhibition Center and other sections have a large traffic flow out of Shenzhen.

  The Guangdong Provincial Department of Transportation expects that the traffic flow will remain high on the first day of the National Day holiday (October 1); a new wave of short-distance travel traffic may occur from October 4 to 5, and inter-provincial return traffic will begin to be superimposed; the latter part of the holiday (October 1) From the 6th to the 7th), there is a return traffic flow in the direction of the central city entering the city and the main road between the provinces.

  Guangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi are the main inter-provincial travel directions.

During the National Day holiday this year, the Department of Transportation of Guangdong Province predicts that the main congested roads are mainly concentrated in 95 places such as the Le-Guang Expressway and the North Second Ring Expressway.

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