Han Ximin
TRAIN tickets for the pre-festival period were sold out and the transport authority advised holidaymakers to choose other forms of transport to return home.
By 6 p.m. yesterday, there were only a few tickets to Xiangfan, Chengdu, Xinyang, Chongqing, Hengyang and Wuchang, the Shenzhen transport commission said yesterday.
About 1.52 million people had left the city for home by 6 p.m. yesterday, an increase of 6.21 percent compared with the same period last year.
According to the Spring Festival Transport Office, 7,200 long-distance buses had been deployed to carry 3.3 million passengers home before the Spring Festival holidays.
The office reminded drivers to be aware of icy roads with falling temperatures to affect Guangdong at the end of the month.
City traffic police were also preparing for the transport peak by setting up 19 inspection stations on expressways to check overloading, speeding, drunk driving and driver fatigue.
In the past week, police had detected 15,265 violations including 23 cases of drunk driving and 17 cases of unlicensed driving. Some inspection stations had checked and registered 2,000 buses a day.
Early on Jan. 20, a driver surnamed Ouyang was caught by Huiyan Traffic Police Unit for drunk driving at the He ao Tollgate on Huiyan Expressway.
The test showed Ouyang s blood-alcohol content was 68 milligrams per 100 milliliters. A truck driver, identified as Wen, was arrested for drunk driving after an accident on Guangshen Expressway on Jan. 20. His blood-alcohol content was 174mg/100ml, doubling the legal level of 80 mg/100 ml.
