Traffic basically back to normal in China, a few roads remain closed
10/2/2008 11:57
Traffic in disaster-hit China has largely been back to normal, with only a
few highway sections still being closed due to frozen road surface, the Ministry
of Public Security said in Beijing yesterday.
Traffic was smooth on the
Beijing-Zhuhai expressway, a north-south trunk road.
The trunk road saw
a surging flow of traffic at the section bordering Guangdong and central Hunan
Province, with 3,832 vehicles heading south, up 70 percent from Friday, and
5,760 vehicles heading north, down 20 percent, according to the ministry.
In east China's Zhejiang Province, a section of the No. 13 provincial
highway, a section of the No. 22 provincial highway and two sections of the No.
20 provincial highways remained closed to vehicles because of icy surfaces.
Road to the scenic Daming Mountain in Nanning, capital city of Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region in southwest China, was still sealed, as workers were
clearing fallen trees and repairing cave-ins on the road.
Six sections
of highway in north China's Shaanxi Province were either under traffic control
or were blocked at night, the ministry said.
More than 140,000 police
officers and 45,000 police cars were deployed on roads nationwide to ensure safe
and smooth traffic during the traditional Spring Festival.
By 6:00 pm
yesterday, no major accident with three or more killed were reported, according
to the ministry.
The snow, the heaviest in five decades in many places,
has been falling in China's eastern, central and southern regions for almost a
month. It has caused death, structural collapse, blackouts, traffic chaos and
livestock and crop losses in 19 provinces, municipalities and regions.
Xinhua
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