Ministry of Transport: China will improve toll free two highway systems

"Caijing" comprehensive report, Deputy Minister of Transport and Transport, Weng Mengyong January 18 at the new state news conference, said that China's road construction in the future will be committed to improve the two systems, first, in some trunk lines, expressways, the use of relatively low standard fees to maintain operation and maintenance; one is a free highway system, Free passage of ordinary highways.　　He also said that will further promote urban public transport priority development, to solve the traffic congestion problem. Weng Mengyong said, "We are studying the gradual establishment of a stable, low standard fee system, which allows ordinary people to bear, and the charging policy should be open and transparent." "Weng Mengyong introduced that by the end of last year, China has 17 provinces to cancel the government repayment of two-level highway toll site, revocation site 1723, the total mileage of 90,000 kilometers."　　The goal in the future is to abolish the two-level highway charges altogether. In response to questions about Henan's "exorbitant tolls", Weng Mengyong said that without a toll road policy, there would be no current status and achievements in China's traffic. Toll road policy has played a positive role in supporting the development of China's transportation system. "Because of our country's financial resources, for a considerable period of time for the construction of the highway funds are through social financing, that is, loans to build roads, pay the repayment." There is indeed a question of the need to further standardize and improve the relevant policy of charging. Weng Mengyong pointed out that the implementation of public transport priority strategy is a very important measure to solve urban traffic congestion. At present, the main position of public transport in the urban transportation system of our country has not been really established.　　The shortage of public transport investment, the relative lag of infrastructure construction and the uncoordinated development of urban and rural passenger transport are more outstanding.　　In order to improve the urban travel situation, the Transport Department will mainly implement six measures in the coming years. First, the establishment and improvement of industry regulation and policy measures to increase the supervision of the industry, for public transport priority development to create a good policy environment.　　For example, the Urban Public Transport Ordinance is currently being widely consulted, and the next step is to promote the development of urban bus priority.　　Second, in some central cities to organize the implementation of public transport city construction demonstration projects, to encourage the improvement of the share of bus travel, support urban intelligent Transportation system and public service information construction.　　The third is to encourage the widespread adoption of new energy technologies, energy-saving and emission reduction technologies in urban public transport.　　Four is to support the construction of integrated transport hub, such as the construction of railways, civil aviation, urban traffic and intercity transport in one of the major urban integrated transport hub, not only can reduce the number of passengers transfer, but also reduce the different modes of transport and the lack of convergence to aggravate urban traffic congestion.　　Five is to support the establishment of public travel information Service system, so that the general public, including tourists, through the network and other more convenient way to obtain urban public transport transfer information, as well as the operation of various modes of transport timely information. Six is to strengthen the safety and security of urban public transport operation. "Now the urban public transport, especially the development of rail transit, are large capacity, very dense population, so it's safe to run veryImportant。 We will strengthen the security of operation and improve the ability of emergency handling.　　"Weng Mengyong said. Weng Mengyong said that the Department of Transportation is very supportive of Beijing's comprehensive measures to solve the traffic congestion. But he also pointed out that the layout of each city is not the same as the actual situation, all over the solution to traffic congestion problem, should be in line with the basic principles from the actual, and fully draw on the successful experience of other cities.