At 09:17 today, 3 passenger cars and a pallet truck collided with a closed main lane at 312.4 kilometers south of Country 1, resulting in a 3-kilometer backlog.

(Provided by Gaogong Bureau)

[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] Today (2nd) is the New Year's Day holiday. As of 11:00 am, the traffic volume of the entire national highway is 23.9 million vehicle kilometers, and the estimated traffic volume today is 110 million vehicle kilometers.

In the morning, the congested section of the National Highway, except for the section from Guo 5 northbound from Yilan to Toucheng, saw heavy traffic at 10:00. It is estimated that the Western National Highway will open in the afternoon and the congestion will not be relieved until 8:00 pm. The Gaogong Bureau urges the public to avoid 9 traffic congested road.

The Gaogong Bureau said that 3 accidents in the morning caused some road sections to be blocked for a while, including 3 small passenger cars and pallet trucks chasing and closing the main lane at 9:17 am on the Anding Road section of Guo 1 (312.4 kilometers southbound), resulting in 3 backblocks. Kilometers; at 10:54, a small truck and a passenger car collided with each other on the Tucheng section of Guo 3 (44 kilometers north) and occupied the outer lane, resulting in a 1 km backlog; The collision accident occupied the outer lane, resulting in a 1-kilometer backlog.

The accidents have all been ruled out, but once caused the traffic to be blocked, which seriously affected the smooth driving.

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At present (at noon on the 2nd), the congested road sections, including the "red burst" northbound section from Yilan to Toucheng, the northbound traffic speed is less than 30 kilometers; 40 kilometers.

For National 5, high occupancy control will be implemented at the northbound entrances of Suao, Luodong, Yilan, and Toucheng from 2 to 9 p.m. At present, there are long queues at the northbound entrances of many interchanges, from the bridgehead of the Yilan River to the entrance of the Yilan Interchange of National 5 Queue for 2 kilometers, Jiaoxi Transit Station via Taiwan Line 9 Toucheng to the entrance of National 5 Toucheng Interchange, Jiaoxi Transit Station via Yi 4 Line Toucheng to National 5 Toucheng Interchange entrance for 2.5 kilometers, Luodong Chuanyi Intersection Line up for 2 kilometers to the entrance of Luodong Interchange of National 5, and queue for 1 kilometer to the entrance of Su’ao Interchange of National 5 from Su’ao Haishan West Road.

The Gaogong Bureau predicts 9 congested road sections today, including Miaoli-Hukou from 16 to 20 o'clock in the northbound direction of State 1 (travel time is 4 times that of normal days), Nantun-Houli from 15 to 18 o'clock (4 times), 15 to 18 Shixiluo-Puyan system (4 times), Guo 3 northward 15-20 o'clock Guanxi-Daxi (4 times), 15-20 o'clock Dashan-Xiangshan (4 times), 15-18 o'clock Caotun-Wufeng ( 3 times), from 15 to 18 o'clock, Zhushan-Zhongxing (3 times); from 9 to 20 o'clock in the north of China 5, Yilan Pinglin (7 times); from 16 to 18 o'clock in the west of Guo 6, the old Zheng-Wufeng system (3 times).

Today's national highway diversion measures include closing the Puyan system of State 1 from 12 to 21:00, Huwei and the northbound entrance of the west coast of State 3, implementing high-occupancy control at the northbound entrances of Suao, Luodong, Yilan and Toucheng in State 5 from 14 to 21:00, Single rate, National 3 "Hsinchu system to Yanchao system" adopts a single rate and then charges with a 20% discount, charges are suspended from 0 to 5, open road shoulders, ramp instrument control, etc.

At 10:54 today, a small truck and a passenger car collided with each other at 44 kilometers north of China 3, occupying the outer lane, resulting in a 1-kilometer backlog.

(Provided by Gaogong Bureau)

At 11:21 today, 2 small passenger cars collided with each other before the westbound Dazhu exit of Guo 2, occupying the outer lane, resulting in a 1-kilometer traffic jam.

(Provided by Gaogong Bureau)