On January 15th, 16 Spring Festival traffic safety service stations set up in Yiling Yangtze River Bridge and Baisha Road were officially opened, and temporary checkpoints have been set up at the expressway exit of the jurisdiction and the long-distance downhill slope of more than 3 kilometers, which marks that the public security traffic police department has entered the Spring Festival Transport Mode in advance.
The Spring Festival Transport in 2019 begins on January 21 stand ends on March 1st,totaling 40 days. During this period, Yichang will take seven-seatedvehicles, passenger buses, tourist chartered buses and cars, dangerous chemicals transport vehicles, medium and heavy trucks, school buses or transport vehicles for students as key objects. We will inspect and register every vehicle to strengthen road inspection, and strictly inspect illegal acts such as overcrowding, fatigue, unlicensed and alcohol driving.
In order to escort the way home, the municipal public security department will also arrange more than 6,000 police officers to patrol the road, and more than 500 road chiefs to escort the rural roads, striving to create a pleasant and safe traffic environment for the people on their way home. Traffic police departments will also set up "loving posts" at duty stations and sentry boxes of road chiefs to provide convenient services such as counseling, rest, boiled water, medical first-aidboxes and so on, so as to ensure the temporary rest and usage for those returnees.(Reporter Pei Shujing; Correspondent Zhu Huagang)