Spring Festival travel rush in 2022 ｜ Take many measures to ensure the safety and thorough epidemic prevention on the way home by car.

CCTV News:This year, in Spring Festival travel rush, in order to reduce the risk of epidemic, some returning tourists chose to drive home for the New Year, avoiding too much contact with public places in a peer-to-peer way. Local transportation departments should strictly and carefully do a good job in epidemic prevention and control and safety supervision, and create a safe and smooth traffic environment for returning home by car.

Traffic departments in Jiangsu and Shanxi have instructed expressway service areas to formulate Measures for Prevention and Treatment of Pneumonia Infected in novel coronavirus. Additional staff have been assigned at the entrance of the service area, and administrators for daily inspection of epidemic prevention and control have been added. In strict accordance with the requirements of prevention and control, the requirements and knowledge of prevention and control have been broadcast circularly by using rolling large screens and speakers, and the service area has been sterilized at high frequency, and the trip code has been checked for 24 hours, and the temperature has been measured. On-site supervision and guidance company has been urged to scan and show the trip code to eliminate the hidden danger of epidemic prevention and control.

According to the regional characteristics of road sections and the distribution of law enforcement forces, Sichuan Transportation Department has rationally arranged 189 emergency material storage points in the 8608 km expressway network in Sichuan, and all of them have been moved forward to accident-prone areas such as service areas, tunnel entrances and interchange ramps to ensure that rescuers and equipment are in place in time. The expressway service area (toll station) has set up 294 warm-hearted convenience service points in Spring Festival travel rush as a whole, which not only has basic epidemic prevention and disinfection items, but also upgrades the hot water provided 24 hours a day to ginger soup, and provides car maintenance tools and umbrellas to solve the practical difficulties of traveling; 79 pairs of charging piles in expressway service area basically meet the charging needs of new energy vehicles.

The Ministry of Transport reminds drivers to master the car condition, road conditions and weather conditions in advance and plan the travel route reasonably; When traveling by car, be sure to fasten your seat belt and don’t be distracted by driving; In case of bad weather, drive slowly and steadily to prevent the adverse effects of snowfall, snow freezing and low visibility on traffic, and avoid blindly taking risks.