Just yesterday, when Nan Ge was walking on the expressway, he suddenly found that the original "lifting pole" high-speed entrance had started the same operation before the epidemic: "dropping pole", sweeping TEC or locking it into the expressway.
Many car owners did not insert ETC cards in advance, which led to the need to retreat, change lanes or stop to find cards, resulting in congestion at high-speed intersections. Nan Ge himself was "beeped" by the rear car for two minutes because the ETC equipment was out of power.
Last night, Nan Ge finally saw the "important notice" on the official account of WeChat, an ETC assistant, and shared it with you immediately today:
According to the unified deployment of the Ministry of Transport, from 0: 00 on April 25, 2020, the expressway will be fully tested in the whole section and process, and normalized management will be implemented. All the access lanes of the toll highway will be restored from the current "lifting pole" to the normal "lowering pole" state.
Continue to be free for the time being, and when the charge is unknown.
However, in the official notice, it did not explicitly stop the free time again, but used a subtle expression: Warmly remind all car owners and friends that the test work will not affect the free passage of vehicles before the release of the toll-free policy. In this way, there is room for charging in advance, maintaining the original provisional charge after 6.30, or continuing to be free.
ETC charges will be displayed more clearly.
After the cancellation of provincial toll stations and the reform of ETC system, many car owners complained that the charges were wrong, unclear, untraceable, repeatedly notified and invoiced. Some people also questioned that it is "black-box operation" to make the system and the way of checking fees more complicated because of unclear fees, and "it is unnecessary to take off your pants and fart". If we don't look at ETC reform with conspiracy theory, it will prove that the previous system upgrade is not perfect and thorough, and we can also send four words-"wasting people and money".
Yesterday, the official finally said:
In order to meet the needs of ETC customers after the cancellation of the provincial toll station of expressway, all the current fees are displayed in the exit lane of expressway toll station in time and accurately, and "one trip, one order, one deduction and one notice" is realized.
Although in Nan Ge's actual experience, I didn't see that the deduction amount was set to 0 yuan, but a blank piece of paper blocked the amount displayed in the fee. Generally speaking, "one trip, one single deduction and one notice" is the popular aspiration. Fortunately, the majority of car owners have finally put their daily driving payment experience back on track.
The biggest problem remains unsolved.
In this notice, the official confidence in the toll collection system clearly stated that "the full cost of the current traffic should be displayed in time and accurately", but in addition to the cost, the owner may also question the traffic efficiency of the high-speed entrance.
The original intention of implementing "National ETC" should be to strengthen traffic efficiency and reduce the reduction of urban operation efficiency caused by artificial channel queuing. However, in the way of implementation, "one size fits all" and "Great Leap Forward" are still the ways that some institutions rely on, which leads to the new regulations being "counterproductive" in some areas. Previously, chaos such as stopping cars at high-speed intersections, installing ETC on annual inspection vehicles, and installing ETC on coaches emerged one after another. We even saw the slogan that you are not welcome to get on the expressway without ETC.
However, as far as the real experience of Nan Ge is concerned, there is still the biggest problem in some areas: the reduction of manual toll collection channels has led to the congestion of big cars and small cars.
At the entrance of Yonghe Jiguang Expressway in Zengcheng, Guangdong, where Nan Ge often passes, there are all kinds of trucks every day. Because they need to change lanes to the manual window to weigh and get the card, they cross three lanes, which leads to the congestion of the auxiliary road entering the expressway, which in turn leads to the congestion of the surrounding intersections. Even though ETC has a high recognition rate and accurate charging rate, how to enter the expressway smoothly is still a big problem.
Although there are not many places where trucks are relatively concentrated at this particular T-junction, the owners who spend ten or twenty minutes every day should be miserable. I don't know whether the relevant departments can get rid of the "one size fits all" implementation mode in the future, or whether they can authorize each toll entrance site to let the staff adapt to local conditions.
After all, "transparent charging, improving efficiency and going home safely" is what the people want.
Five reminders for car owners
Previously, many car owners laughed and said that "the epidemic saved ETC", meaning that the epidemic caused high-speed suspension of charges, which made the ETC system adjust for several months. With the increasingly stable epidemic situation in China, it is imperative for expressway to charge in advance, and the debugging of ETC system and the recovery of expressway daily management also mean that the recovery of toll in advance may have entered the final preparation stage.
Of course, from another angle, compared with the epidemic situation abroad, the operation of foreign governments and the behavior of foreigners, we have a "black question mark", and we can return to normal life safely and smoothly and find the production order, which has become a powerful national force. Everyone should be encouraged by our unity before the epidemic and the basic control of the epidemic.
Finally, I will tell you about the precautions for resuming toll driving at high speed. I also hope that everyone will continue to pay attention to the owner's guide, and talk about new cars and Kan Kan automobile circle together at noon every day. Like Nan Ge's sharing, you can also light up "watching" every day to let more friends know. During the May Day holiday, the expressway will continue to be free. I hope everyone will stick to their jobs in the last few days, go out safely and go home safely.
Five reminders
1, ETC equipment is charged, and the card can be inserted back, because it wants to avoid the car owners who are charged during the free period.
2.ETC vehicles can enter normally from ETC entrance lane or ETC/MTC mixed entrance lane without stopping. When passing through the gantry, they will be charged normally, and the 0 yuan card will be deducted from the exit lane (or shielded charge, that is, no charge).
3.MTC refers to the manual semi-automatic toll lane, which is the existing manual toll collection system. Now it is usually mixed with the ETC entrance.
4. Card friends should pay attention to the fact that trucks will strictly carry out weighing inspection at the entrance of the expressway, and illegal, over-limit and overloaded vehicles are prohibited from entering the expressway.
Before the official announcement to stop the free policy, the test work will not affect the free passage of vehicles.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.