The recent years have witnessed the constant improvementin Jingzhou City’s transportation infrastructure.The construction of "safetylife protection engineering" has prevented the occurrence of trafficaccidents and reduced life and property loss of the masses to some extent. Today,the series report Splendid 70 Years - How Magnificent and Beautiful theHighway is! Look at the Huge Changes in Jingzhou Highway presents its thirdchapter Pursuing "safety life protection engineering "toeliminate the hidden hazards of rural roads.
On March 9, 2019, when Mr. Zhang drove a private car andarrived near the Songhu River Super-Large Bridge on the Jingzhou-Songzi Class IHighway, the car ran out of control and dashed to a 15-meter-deep river.Fortunately, the car was blocked by the cement fence, so Mr. Zhang and his wifedid not be injured.Like Mr. and Mrs. Zhang, there were many lucky ones whohad been saved by the Jingzhou highway safety life protection engineeringbefore.
In order to nip potential safety hazards in the bud, the MunicipalTraffic Management Bureau and Highway Department have installed protectiverailings in the road sections along the river, and set up advisory stations,warning boards, flashing lights, speed bumps and other traffic securityfacilities in part of folks and important node positions, thus eliminating thepotential safety hazards of the whole section.
Highway safety life protection engineering includesnational & provincial trunk road and rural highway. Starting from 2017,Hubei Province plans to basically complete the construction of "safetylife protection engineering" on national and provincial highways, countyand township highways and village highways that get access to passenger regularbus within 4 years. Up to now, the city has completed more than 7,000kilometers of ordinary highway security projects, and finished thereconstruction of more than 150 dangerous bridges.
At the same time, Jingzhou Traffic Management Bureau takesthe initiative to sound the safety "alarm".Since the launch of the "safetylife protection engineering", it has conducted a comprehensive anddetailed investigation and sorting of the city's roads repeatedly. With the expressways,national and provincial highways, county and township highways, villagehighways and the roads passable for passenger regular buses, school buses andvehicles used for picking up students as the priority, rectification work on thepotential safety hazards of road traffic has been carried out. Up to now, JingzhouCity has completed the construction of 3,612 km of rural road life protectionprojects, and investigated and rectified 1,267 hidden hazards of rural roads
The vigorous advance of highway safety life protection engineering,has maximized to prevent and reduce the occurrence of the major and serioustraffic accidents. The occurrence rate of traffic safety accidents on ruralhighways in Jingzhou City has been effectively restrained.