S2 Lingang Toll Station has a high probability of mistaken driving, and will implement the warning of diversion before the station as soon as possible. Source： Jiefang Daily font size： large, medium a

The green signboard at the intersection of S2 Lingang Toll Station is misleading. Photo by Wang Haiyan

Reporter Wang Haiyan

S2 Shanghai-Luchaogang Expressway (referred to as "Hulu Expressway") connects Shanghai urban area with Lingang New Area and Yangshan Port, and Lingang Toll Station is its terminal toll exit in Lingang New Area. Different from the general toll station, the port toll station of Hulu Expressway belongs to the diversion before the station, and the direction to Nanlu Highway and the port direction are diverted in front of the toll station. Many cars going to mud towns and heavy equipment industrial zones for the first time will miss the port direction if they are not careful.

"Driving from the urban area to the mud town, many people will take a wrong road at the toll station of Lingang Expressway. It is roughly estimated that the error rate of the first trip to the mud town and the heavy equipment industrial zone is 60%. " Zhang Yinbiao, deputy of the Municipal People’s Congress and secretary of the Party Committee of Mud Town, found that this toll station has a high probability of driving by mistake. Once you drive the wrong way, you will have to drive nearly 30 kilometers more.

The reporter drove to visit the site. When he arrived at the Lingang toll station, he did not take the exit of Nanlu Highway, but chose the exit in the direction of Lingang. After passing through the toll station, I saw that there was a cement isolation pier between the lanes of Nanlu Highway and Lingang, and then I drove forward, and there was no diversion exit ramp. In other words, the wrong driver has no chance to correct the diversion after the station. If you take the wrong exit, it will take almost half an hour to correct the error.

Zhang Yinbiao believes that there should be an opportunity for error correction after the vehicle station that mistakenly enters the direction of Mud Town. It is suggested that the continuous cement isolation pier on the left side of the station has a normal opening, which can be guided by the ground marking signs and indicator poles for safe guidance. Recently, his suggestion got the latest reply from the undertaking department.

Can the cement isolation pier of toll station be adjusted? The undertaking department explained that there are five toll stations in Hulu Expressway, including Lingang Toll Station and Nanlu Highway Toll Station in Lingang area, and the physical locations of the two toll stations are located in the same place. If the isolation pier at the back of the station is set with a constant opening, it does not meet the requirement of isolation between stations in the toll station setting rules. At the same time, the toll mileage of Lingang toll station and Nanlu highway toll station is different. The toll mileage of Lingang station goes to Shengang Avenue and Nanlu station goes to Nanlu station. If the isolation pier at the back of the station is set with a constant opening, the toll charging standards will be different, which will lead to the objection of passing customers. In addition, considering that the traffic of the toll station on the main line of Lingang is concentrated, if the isolation pier at the back of the station is provided with a constant opening, the frequent lane change and intersection of vehicles will easily lead to traffic accidents, which will have certain security risks.

Chengtou Group said that during driving, if you mistakenly drive into the toll station of Lingang main line, you can drive to the ramp of Lianggang Interchange to Tongshun Avenue and take the ground road; If you drive into the direction of Nanlu Highway by mistake, turn around at the intersection where the exit ramp meets Nanlu Highway, and you can re-drive into the direction of Donghai Bridge of S2 Hulu Expressway to your destination.

The reason why this crossing is easy to go wrong is that the sign is not clear enough. The reporter found that although there is a sign indicating the exit of Nanlu Highway near the toll station, and there is a ground sign 500 meters near the exit of Nanlu Highway, it is somewhat confusing. For example, 50 meters near the Lingang toll station, two green signs are erected on the right side of the road, marked "Lingang Service Area" on the right and "Nanlu Highway" on the left, which are covered by surrounding trees. Except for Nanlu Highway, there is no guide sign about "Mud Town" and "Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone". For those who go to Mud Town and Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone, they may confuse the directions of Lingang exit and Nanlu Highway exit.

Zhang Yinbiao suggested that the diversion prompt of the straight section in front of the station should be strengthened, and the continuous diversion prompt should be set up from the straight section after the intersection of S2 Ring Expressway, indicating the diversion direction of Mud Town, Nanlu Highway and Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone.

The traffic police department said that in view of the fact that some motor vehicle drivers still can’t identify lanes on demand, they have coordinated the high-speed maintenance unit to optimize the work plan and strengthen the instructions, that is, adding diversion warning signs and markings such as Mud Town, Nanlu Highway and Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone in front of the toll station, and simultaneously organizing the cleaning and greening to eliminate the phenomenon of greening blocking the signs.

Chengtou Group also said that for the suggestion of adding diversion tips such as mud town, Nanlu highway and heavy equipment industrial zone on the ground, professional design units have been entrusted to design the traffic guidance measures such as signs, and the company has arranged to clean up the situation that the greening of service areas and toll stations affects the identification of road markings and signs.

The traffic police department said that the next step will be to urge the high-speed maintenance unit to implement the diversion prompt scheme before the station as soon as possible, so as to facilitate motor vehicle drivers to identify lanes in advance and ensure safe and smooth traffic.

Regarding the representative’s suggestion on modifying and improving navigation tips, Chengtou Group said that the navigation path modification of related traffic navigation software will actively connect with navigation software vendors to improve the software functions.