Today is the 12th day of the Spring Festival travel rush, and transportation ushers in a peak passenger flow before the festival. The transportation department actively responds to the impact of adverse weather on the Spring Festival travel rush and makes every effort to ensure the safe and smooth travel of the Spring Festival travel rush.
Today, the national railway is expected to send 15.25 million passengers, and it is planned to add 2,111 passenger trains. The Beijing Railway Bureau of the National Railway is expected to send 1.3 million passengers today, exceeding 1.3 million for the first time since the Spring Festival travel rush. The Guangzhou Bureau of the National Railways Railway is expected to send 2.448 million passengers today, which is expected to break the historical record of passengers sent in a single day in the Spring Festival travel rush.
In response to the cold wave and blizzard warning information released by the meteorological department, the relevant railway bureau promptly launched emergency plans. The Urumqi, Kuitun and other station areas of the Urumqi Bureau of the National Railway carried out snow removal and ice removal operations overnight to ensure that the line equipment is operating well. At the same time, all major stations conduct comprehensive inspections on the heating pipelines and equipment of each station to ensure the supply of hot water in the waiting hall.
Some roads affected by snow accumulation implement temporary controls, and passenger flow during the Spring Festival transportation is concentrated on the railway. The Lanzhou Bureau of the National Railway and the Hohhot Bureau of the National Railway have dynamically adjusted the passenger train operation plan, added EMU temporary passengers and intercity trains to ensure the safe and smooth travel of passengers to the greatest extent. Due to snowfall, the Yinxi High-speed Railway train is running at a speed limit. The Xi'an Electrical Service Section of the Xi'an Bureau of the National Railway will clean up key areas such as turnouts and switches in major routes such as Longhai, Xikang, and Baoxi to ensure the safety of railway transportation.
From yesterday, the Nanning Bureau of the National Railway has launched a Level IV emergency response to ice and snow frost natural disasters on sections of Guizhou and Guangxi Passenger Dedicated from Jiang to Guilin West, Hunan-Guangzhou to Xing'an and other sections.
