Do ETC wonderful, illegal and compulsory behavior! Toll station staff： If you don’t do ETC, let him block it

　　CCTV News:It’s not the rush hour or holidays. On Thursday, at several high-speed toll stations in Hefei, Anhui Province, there were long queues in the manual toll lanes. The queues were all vehicles that didn’t handle ETC. In contrast, several ETC lanes next to them were very smooth. Car owners told reporters that the reason for the obvious increase in congestion recently is very simple. ETC lanes have increased significantly, while manual toll lanes have decreased significantly.

　　Toll station staff:There are all ETC lanes over there

　　Reporter:Can’t these two drive?

　　Toll station staff:This is the ETC lane, which is being rebuilt and can’t be opened.

　　At the exit of Jinzhai Road toll station, all 12 toll lanes have ETC function, and only two or three manual toll lanes are left. A few days ago, a car owner found at the exit of the toll station in Yongzhen Town, Wuhu Expressway that only one artificial lane was left in 16 lanes.

　　Tao Huang, Deputy Director of Operation Management Department of Anhui Communications Holding Group:According to the document jointly issued by the Ministry of Communications and the National Development and Reform Commission, the number of special ETC lanes around our large and medium-sized cities will account for 70% of all our lanes before the end of October, so it is objectively caused by a certain reduction in artificial lanes.

　　At various toll stations, ETC propaganda slogans can be seen everywhere, not only with ETC handling points, but also with loud ETC propaganda broadcasts. The words of the staff of Jinzhai Road toll station made it clear that the reduction of artificial lanes seems to be to force the car to host ETC.

　　Toll station staff:Do ETC, do it quickly, and it will be even more blocked in the future. Now there are still three lanes, and next year there will be one lane.

　　Reporter:The traffic jam lasted so long.

　　Toll station staff:Traffic jam, now say that if you don’t do ETC, let him block it, that’s what you said. We have opened more, and we have to bear the responsibility. Who will bear the responsibility?

　　Reporter:What’s the responsibility?

　　Toll station staff:There are still 3 million cars in Anhui province that have not yet been ETC, so what should we do?

　　ETC, that is, non-stop electronic toll collection system, the vehicle ETC can realize unmanned electronic toll collection, and it only takes a few seconds to pass. But even though ETC is so good, so "promoting ETC through congestion" really makes car owners feel uncomfortable.

　　Hefei citizens:Why do you have to install ETC? Right? We’re not saying we can’t pretend, but it makes people feel uncomfortable, just like being forced.

　　This year, the national ETC promotion entered the fast lane, and many high-speed toll stations showed unfriendly attitudes towards vehicles without ETC. The toll station of Xiamen North Station once ran a banner of "ETC is not installed, and the expressway is not welcome", and the toll station of Yuanling, Hunan once ran a slogan of "Vehicles without ETC equipment are not allowed to get on the expressway from January 1". So the slogan "Thunder Man" has been removed. In Tianjin, since 0: 00 last Sunday, all the artificial lanes at the entrances of six toll stations, such as Binhai Station, have been cancelled, and vehicles without ETC can’t really get on the expressway.

　　On Tuesday, at the Tianjin toll station of Jinbin Expressway, the sign "ETC vehicles only" was still visible, and the broadcast was also played in a loop. Owners who don’t have ETC can either go to the expressway to handle ETC, or they can only turn around and return.

　　Tianjin citizens:I feel that this kind of direct closure of the artificial lane is not very comfortable anyway.

　　Tianjin citizens:I don’t do this, because I feel it is relatively troublesome to reimburse.

　　Tianjin citizens:What should you do when you are old? What should you do if you drive here in your 60 s, don’t have ETC and don’t have a bank card?

　　A spokesman for the Ministry of Transport said last week that even next year, ETC will be able to get on the expressway, and toll stations should keep a small number of artificial toll lanes. On Wednesday, after the relevant departments in Tianjin were ordered to rectify, the artificial lanes were reopened at the entrances of six high-speed toll stations such as Binhai Station. The reporter once again came to the Tianjin toll station of Jinbin Expressway, where an artificial lane has been restored. However, is one lane enough and will there be congestion? Dynamically allocate the number of artificial lanes according to the traffic flow, and improve the service to solve the practical difficulties and worries of handling ETC, so that ETC can really reduce congestion instead of adding congestion to high speed.