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Shanghai’s police on high alert for traffic violations
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SHANGHAI’S traffic police are to be assisted by colleagues in other departments in a major crackdown on traffic violations, the local government said yesterday.
Among the offenses being targeted in a bid to relieve chronic congestion on the city’s roads are illegal parking and the abuse of car horns.
Penalties will be recorded in residents’ credit ratings and could even affect non-residents’ residence permit applications.
Deputy Mayor Bai Shaokang said the main reason behind Shanghai’s long-running traffic problems was a failure to obey the rules of the road.
“For example, overusing car horns has been forbidden within the Outer Ring Road since 2005,” Bai said. “However, you can frequently hear such horns wherever there’s congestion.”
Bai said many drivers didn’t take the law seriously and some didn’t even consider their illegal behavior to be violations at all.
In addition to traffic officers, the campaign will also involve police in other departments, he said. Administrative law enforcement bodies from the transport authority, industry and commerce commission, and urban management authority, will also be deployed to crack down on violations.
Bai said the campaign will mark the beginning of regular governance of transport issues in the city.
He said the government was considering a system that would connect serious traffic violations with application for residence permits, which could lead to applications being denied on the basis on driving records.
Like the crackdown on fireworks within the Outer Ring Road, the campaign will be publicized across the city.
The crackdown will cover 79 main roads and 160 key sections in downtown areas, and roads near government institutions, schools, hospitals and business centers. Transport hubs, large residential complexes, tourist sites and roads with congestion problems will also be included.
Police said the main focuses of the campaign will be illegal parking; using bus lanes; illegally changing lanes; illegal use of horns; using expired or fake plates or intentionally covering plates; occupying intersections or zebra crossings when traffic is at a standstill; going through red lights and reversing illegally.
The campaign will also target pedestrians and cyclists who ignore traffic lights or climb over road barriers.
Motorcycle riders who carry passengers for profit will also be targeted by the campaign.
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