Reflections on High Speed ​​and Free "First Success"

The major free holidays on the expressway are important advantages for the benefit of the people. It is also a big step for the return of the expressway to public welfare. The significance of the policy itself is that it fully proves that the freeway is free and completely feasible.

After the end of the long vacation, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport stated that the first-ever major holiday holiday policy on free passenger cars was a success, and the traffic volume of the national highway network had increased substantially compared with previous years, and the overall operation was stable. According to statistics, during the eight-day long holiday, a total of 68,422 road traffic accidents occurred in the country, which was a decrease of 24.1% year-on-year, and 2,164 road accidents occurred, causing 794 deaths.

If you look at the statistics alone, you can really say that it is a "first victory." Driven by the favorable free policies of the freeway, the number of road passengers rose sharply during the long holidays. Although congestion began to appear at different levels, the situation of congestion changed after the cancellation of the issuance of cards. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that “the first battle is a success”. . What is rare is that under the background of the “blowout” of passenger traffic, the number of casualties caused by traffic accidents has dropped instead. This is undoubtedly worthy of recognition.

Free highway "first victory", at least shows that one, to congestion to question or even negate the free policy is untenable, but also lack convincing, after all, free is not the cause of congestion "culprit", many times man-made car accident Lag management is an important reason for congestion. Therefore, the relevant departments also proposed a management proposition, that is how to quickly deal with traffic accidents and divert traffic. Second, with the success of the first battle, during the next major holiday free implementation process, it will be targeted and prepared to ensure smoother traffic and drastically reduce traffic accidents.

However, relative to the official recognition and the support of most people, the Luqiao Company in the vortex of “profiteering fees and high debt” is more reluctant to free traffic. There have been a lot of road and bridge companies jumping out of public grievances: Free Passage leads to reduced revenue impact on company earnings. The industry estimates show that this free policy may lead to the reduction of the net profit of Luqiao listed companies by approximately 1.5 billion yuan.

In fact, this is also expected. As early as the freeway major holiday holidays have just given way to the wind, investors have come out and shouted “Lost”, and said that this approach ignores the right of the expressway company to know, and its legitimate rights and interests have been damaged. Objectively speaking, free holidays do affect the income of highway companies. For example, some experts estimate that free roads will be used to allow toll roads to be reduced by 20 billion yuan during Golden Week. Whether this figure is scientific is for the time being, but the reduction is a fact.

However, the reduction is not equal to a loss. Luqiao's "grievance" is also reflected in the reduction in profits, which means that the free money only allows them to make less. However, if we want them to disclose their actual accounts, and specifically announce how much of the huge road and bridge fees are used to repay the loans, how many have entered the pockets of interest groups, in the end how much less, I am afraid there are not many freeway companies willing. Therefore, behind the “crying poverty” again and again, it is the monopoly attitude that highway companies are accustomed to making profits and do not want to be free, and they do not rule out the state of mind that they want to obtain state subsidies and preferential measures.

No matter what, the freeway took the first free step and basically completed its first exam. Some of the detailed issues revealed in this college entrance examination just provided a useful reference for the coming Spring Festival free of charge. The deeper thinking is that the toll mileage of China’s expressways is said to have accounted for half of the total mileage of the world's toll roads, and the fee standards are generally high, which directly leads to high logistics costs. Therefore, the major free holidays of the expressway is a great advantage for the benefit of the people, and it is also a big step for the return of the expressway to the public welfare. The significance of the policy itself is that it fully proves that freeway free is completely feasible. The intention of the extension is how to make Luqiao Company gradually go free and return to public welfare. It is not limited to major holidays, nor is it limited to small passenger cars under seven.