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Did anyone attend this hearing in Songjiang yesterday (24 October)? Would love to see any reports.
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Seems there is a date set for verdict.
I wonder if the "authorities" are a little worried about the typical rider using "city practices" when they are driving on the expressways ...
http://i50.tinypic.com/2lu7zo0.jpg
No helmet, no eye protection, no gloves ... high speed lane, going the wrong way ... maybe an e-scooter? :eek2: Yup, TIC.
Looks like a Yamaha scooter; there are many of those (also in black and yellow) scooting around Zibo these days.
Didn't even seem as though he was interested in the hard shoulder.
I've been driving my best mates car on the local expressways recently and inside of one week I saw a guy on an e-bike in the hard shoulder and an old man zig-zagging down the left hand side of the road on his rusty old bicycle taking his son/grandson home from school at 6pm on a busy Friday afternoon; I'd like to add that it was pitch black by then.
Travel rush to test public transport capacity
SHANGHAI DAILY NEWSPAPER | 2013-1-17 | NEWSPAPER EDITION
MOTORISTS will once again be able to use the city's highways toll-free while the Metro network will serve a peak of 7.5 million passengers during the Spring Festival travel peak, Shanghai traffic authorities said yesterday.
The toll-free policy, first introduced during the National Day holiday in October, will be in effect for small vehicles from February 9 to 15.
The daily peak for vehicles on the city's expressways is expected to reach 900,000.
"We advise drivers not to rush or wait at the toll stations," said Yang Jionghao, deputy director with city road authority. "We don't want there to be any accidents or severe congestion at the main toll stations."
The city's two airports also expect to be busy during the travel rush. They expect to handle about 8.6 million travelers, up 5.7 percent from last year's corresponding period.
Shanghai Railway Station said about 7.8 million will take trains, a 10 percent rise compared to last year. The first added train to accommodate the travel peak, from Shanghai to Chengdu, departed on Tuesday night.
The city's 12 Metro lines are expected to handle an average of 5.7 million riders a day, a 9.4 percent increase from last year, during the 40-day travel rush that starts on January 26, traffic officials said.
Additional subway trains will be put into service to ease congestion on carriages and in stations.
A total of 15.78 million commutes are expected daily on the city's buses, subways and taxis during the travel rush, authorities said.
Meanwhile, the Metro operator began restricting passenger flow on Line 9's Caohejing Hi-Tech Park Station from 5:30pm to 6:30pm due to overcrowding.
Barriers will be added at the entrances to slow down the speed of people entering the station and ease platform congestion, Metro officials said.
The area has many offices. Congestion at the station has increased of late as some companies in the area canceled shuttle bus services.
These numbers are staggering. Almost 16 million daily commutes in Shanghai during the holiday period, which is when many people are NOT working.
China sets highway toll-free dates during Spring Festival
12 Jan, 2013
BEIJING - Chinese drivers rushing home for family reunions during the upcoming Spring Festival will find it a pleasant journey this year as the country's highways will operate toll-free during the holiday. The Ministry of Transport announced on Friday that the country's highways will be toll-free for passenger cars from 0:00 on February 9 to 24:00 on February 15 when most Chinese will go home for the Spring Festival and return to work. He Jianzhong, a spokesman for the Ministry, said passenger cars with seven seats or less and motorcycles will get a free pass through toll roads, bridges and tunnels during the Spring Festival holiday. Drivers will not be asked to stop at toll gates to get electronic tickets this time, according to He. The electronic tickets, which were required in the first three days during the National Day holiday in 2012, were blamed by many for partly causing traffic conjestions at that time. China's State Council, or the Cabinet, approved a program last August to lift road tolls for passenger cars taking highways during major Chinese holidays. The upcoming Spring Festival, the most important Chinese traditional festival of family reunions that falls on February 10 this year, will be the second time of toll-free policy implementation after the National Day holiday 2012.
Source: Xinhua / http://www.bjjtgl.gov.cn/publish/por.../info44806.htm
reminds me the horrxr of the National Day holiday congestion.
So are motorbikes now allowed on the toll roads?
I thought all toll roads were express ways, where motorbikes were not allowed?
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