East China’s Jiangsu province smoothed traffic flow during the New Year’s Day holiday. Let’s take a close look.
At 4 pm on Monday, the Jiangsu Provincial Expressway Dispatching Command Center witnessed the return peak of the expressway network across the province.
Heavy traffic was seen in the Nantong section of the Shenyang-Haikou Expressway and the Huaian-Yangzhou section of the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway. The Suzhou-Nantong Yangtze River Bridge and the Jiangyin Yangtze River Bridge witnessed slow traffic from north to south.
Fewer people chose self-drive tours as highway toll was not scraped during the New Year’s Day holiday and Xuzhou-Lianyungang high-speed railway and Nanjing-Jurong intercity light rail transit system were put into operation right before the new year.
The Wuxi section of the Suzhou-Wuxi-Changzhou South Expressway was put into operation on December 30 last year.
During the 3-day holiday, the expressway exit across the province saw 6.6 million vehicles, a decrease of 2.29% from the same period in 2021. The average speed of highways across the province came at 64 kilometers per hour, an increase of 3.22% over the same period in 2021.
The railway also saw a return peak on Monday. Nanjing Railway Station saw smooth flow of passengers on the last day of the holiday. All ticket gates are equipped with temperature detectors, and all passengers entering the station are required to show their health code and have their temperature taken.
