There are traffic surges in both directions of the National Highway today, and it is expected to be the day with the largest flow of fake cars during the Spring Festival.

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[Reporter Ding Yi/Taipei Report] Today (24th) is the third day of the Lunar New Year. The Highway Bureau of the Ministry of Communications stated that today will be the busiest day on Chinese highways during the continuous Spring Festival holiday. The Highway Bureau predicts that the traffic volume today will be 140 10,000 vehicle kilometers, 1.59 times that of normal days.

Zhang Jiahong, Section Chief of the Traffic Management Team of the Highway Public Transport Bureau, said that there will be a wave of returning traffic to the north this afternoon. The northbound traffic of National 5 may be blocked until 12 o'clock in the evening, and the western national highway may be congested until 10 o'clock in the evening.

Zhang Jiahong pointed out that at present, the speed of State 3 southbound to Yingge-Longtan and State 1 southbound to Hukou-Zhubei is lower than 40 kilometers per hour. It is presumed that people travel south because of bad weather in the north.

Conditions on other road sections are generally normal.

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The Gaogong Bureau explained that today's diversion measures include: from 15 to 20 o'clock, the implementation of high-occupancy control at the northbound entrances of the Suao, Luodong, Yilan and Toucheng interchanges of the country 5, and the closure of the country 1 Pingzhen system and Puyan from 0 to 12 o'clock System, close the south entrance of Shiding and Pinglin in Country 5 from 5 to 12, close the Puyan system in Country 1, and the north entrance of Xibin in Country 3 from 12 to 24, and close the north entrance of Huwei and Rende in Country 1 from 12 to 21. Country 1 Wangtian, Country 3 two-way entrance, single rate, country 3 Hsinchu system to Yanchao system adopts a single rate plus 20% off, toll suspension from 0 to 5, open road shoulders, ramp instrument control, etc.

It is predicted that the key congested road sections this morning will appear in the Yangmei-Hsinchu, Changhua system-Puyan system in the south of National 1, the Xiluo-Puyan system in the north, Nantun-Houli, Yuanshan-Dahua system; the southbound system of National 3 Tucheng-Kanxi, Kuaiguan-Wufeng; National 5 southbound Nangang system-Toucheng, northbound Yilan-Pinglin and other road sections, it is recommended that southbound passers-by depart in the afternoon as much as possible, and northbound passers-by depart in the morning as much as possible.

The traffic volume of the whole day yesterday was 130.8 million vehicle kilometers, which was 1.5 times the average annual average. The traffic volume of National 5 was 3.7 million vehicle kilometers, which was 1.4 times the average annual average. Except for the gradual relief at 22:00, the rest of the road sections were generally smooth after 20:00.

Zhang Jiahong pointed out that it is expected that the traffic jam will ease today about 1-2 hours later than yesterday.

The Highway Bureau recommends that for long-distance people use Taiwan 61 to replace Country 1 and Country 3, Taiwan 9 to replace Country 5, Taiwan 63 to replace Country 6, and Taiwan 74 to connect to Country 4 to replace Country 1 and Country 3. Provincial and county roads, not national roads.