The total amount of traffic fines in China last year was about 300 billion yuan, with an average fine of more than 1,000 yuan per car. Some people say that the Chinese Communist Party has a way to make money. (Video screenshot)
A highway intersection in Guangdong Province is frequently violated, and it was recently revealed that 620,000 people were fined 120 million yuan (RMB, same below). Many car users pointed out that the intersection traffic facilities are unreasonable, drivers can easily get a ticket, some car users with a drone to test, 3 minutes there are 27 people violated the law. In this regard, there is public opinion that the Chinese Communist Party “has a way to make money”.
According to the Southern Daily, Mr. Yuan recently reported that he “got” a ticket at the 200-meter mark on the 43-kilometer Guang-Tai Expressway because he was turning onto the solid line, and when he paid the ticket, he found that the payment system showed that more than 620,000 people had violated the law here.
Mr. Yuan said, “in the car friends circle a discussion, found that this highway off-ramp indication signal set unscientific.”
The Foshan Public Security Traffic Police Department claimed on April 8 that the signage on the above section was “accepted and put into use”.
But for Mr. Yuan, recently in Guangtai high-speed 43 km 200 meters to eat a ticket, so he can not understand why the same place more than 620,000 traffic violations. “If you want to not violate the rules only take the leftmost lane, otherwise when you find it is too late, not only to pay 200 yuan, but also be deducted 3 points.”
Guangtai Expressway, is an important traffic route on the west bank of the Pearl River, which connects Guangzhou, Foshan and Jiangmen together. Especially the Foshan section of the Guangtai Expressway, across Shunde, Chancheng, Nanhai, Gaoming, known as an important “blood vessel” to accelerate the integration of the four regions of Foshan.
For more than 620,000 traffic violation information, Mr. Yuan’s encounter in the circle of car enthusiasts have resonated.
Mr. Ye said, he was also punished here, “the day I pressed the line when I felt wrong, how the road so designed, the tips are not enough, the design does not take into account the actual driving habits, and it happens to be an uphill bit, and so see the solid line when it is already late.”
Another car enthusiast Mr. Lee said, “normal general turnoffs are the left main road, where once it is to go in the middle or the right lane of the vehicle, no advance against the left lane, even if the driver immediately found to be a turnoff, often have to press the solid line, exactly how many people were tricked here, there is no possibility of group representations.”
For the matter of being punished, the complaint of the driver basically unified opinion, that is, the traffic signs here is unreasonable, “here the highway for a Y-shaped intersection, and the signs in the road are straight ahead direction, and there is no indication that drivers need to change lanes in advance of the signs, if it is the first time drivers pass through here, unfamiliar with the situation, it will cause illegal lane change. Government departments should promptly rectify the traffic signs, so that drivers cognizant of the need to change lanes ahead, make early lane changes to avoid illegal behavior.”
Netizens: How many such pockets of wealth accumulation are there in the country?
The above-mentioned report has triggered a heated debate on the Internet. Many netizens commented, “What kind of arrogance and laziness is this to dig a trap for 620,000 people? Do you mark the line reasonable? You say the acceptance passed? So many words on a sign, a flash on the highway, who can read one or two dozen words at once?”
“Foshan traffic police is very pitiful! At the bottom of the Nanhai Avenue bridge turnaround bit pressed a little line, found a traffic police in the back with a camera in a sneak peek, a few years ago after Foshan changed the mayor has been this kind of hanging, the first is the original has not charged the Foshan first ring fierce construction of toll stations, anyway, all kinds of revenue.”
“And not surprising! How many such pockets of wealth in the country? There is no more profitable than this business, with the day into the gold to describe a little pale ah!”
The Chinese Communist Party traffic fines 300 billion in 2020 “electronic police” hidden fishy
According to statistics, the total amount of traffic fines in China in 2020 is about 300 billion yuan. By the end of 2020, the country’s civilian car ownership of about 281 million, the average fine per car more than 1,000 yuan.
During the two sessions of the Chinese Communist Party this year, Han Deyun, a lawyer at Chongqing Sotong Law Firm and a deputy to the National People’s Congress, raised the issue of preventing the abuse of “electronic police,” revealing the many ways in which traffic control departments set up “fine traps” based on self-interest expansion.
On March 9, Han told Interface News that he had observed for several years the unreasonable and abusive setting of road signs and “electronic police” systems in China, which had generated huge fines for traffic authorities.
In some areas with a high concentration of “electronic police,” such as the northbound direction of Beijing’s Jing-Xin Expressway at the Jiuting Bridge, there were 40,790 motor vehicle violations of prohibited signs in a month, or an average of 1,359 per day, Han said.
He cited as examples that some provinces and cities deliberately set lower maximum speeds on partially level, open roads, set multiple speed limits on the same road with no buffer zone to switch between them, change vehicle lane settings when the road is open to cause pressure on the lines, and give parking violation penalties in roadside areas across the board.
In recent years, the Communist Party’s traffic management department has been criticized by public opinion for using traffic fines to generate revenue. The fines have become a “magic weapon” for the traffic management department to enrich itself, which is ironically referred to by the public as a “robber with a license”.
From March 25 to April 17, 2016, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) conducted a so-called road traffic regulation operation, requiring all 6,700 traffic police officers in the city to be on duty. An internal notice from the Shanghai Public Security Bureau was exposed online, which showed that traffic police could not go off duty without completing the number of penalties for the day, which was based on the indicators issued by the Shanghai Municipal Committee.
In June of the same year, Fujian Provincial Expressway Co., Ltd. released news on its official website, the provincial company held a video conference on the province’s “grasp violations, promote revenue” activities, the authorities asked the entire system staff “everyone has indicators”, and proposed to increase revenue “Three ten million” indicators. It is reported that the authorities of Fujian Province asked the transport sector to complete the 2016 toll collection target of 13.3 billion yuan.
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