Today is the first day of the Ching Ming Festival holiday. There is a huge traffic jam on National Highway No. 1 heading south from Changhua, and the 4th lane is full of tourists and grave sweepers returning home.

(Photo by reporter Tang Shiming)

[Reporter Tang Shiming/Changhua Report] Today is the first day of the 5-day Tomb-sweeping Day holiday. Tourists and grave-sweeping crowds have come out. The sections of National Highway No. 1 Taichung and Changhua southbound have been flooded with traffic since 6 o'clock in the morning. Coupled with the effect of showers, At 8 o'clock in the morning, some road sections even had purple bursts. From the 185 kilometers south of Taichung all the way to the 200 kilometers Changhua Interchange Road section, the madness reached 15 kilometers, and the average speed was only 2 to 30 kilometers per hour. There were even "slow speeds" of less than 20 kilometers per hour on the Changhua City section. "Purple Burst" and passers-by called "Crowded to collapse!" The national highway police called for passers-by to drive instead of the road, so as to avoid being jammed on the national highway today.

This morning, the rain continued, and the southward section of the central part of National Highway No. 1 was flooded with tourists and tomb-sweeping vehicles, especially after 8:00 am. The third-lane lanes also began to back up. The road from Taichung to Puyan, which was the most congested in the past, today There was also a big traffic jam. Starting from the Taichung Nantun Interchange, the road proceeded slowly all the way. The speed of some sections was about 4 to 50 kilometers per hour, and then went south to the 189-kilometer section of the Wangtian Interchange Road, which dropped to 3 to 40 kilometers. The 192-kilometer section of Changhua County Tongtong Interchange Road, because National Highway No. 3 merges into the National Highway No. 1 system interchange, a large number of vehicles flooded into National Highway No. 1 in an instant, and the average speed dropped sharply to only more than 20 kilometers per hour, and the 4-lane lanes were all crowded with vehicles , it was not until 200 kilometers southward that the congested traffic was relieved after Changhua Interchange, and the average speed reached 80 to 90 kilometers per hour. However, there was another big traffic jam from Puyan System Interchange to Yuanlin Interchange.

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In addition, the southward section of the Zhongzhang Expressway on the Provincial Highway No. 74 also experienced a traffic jam, especially at the Kuaiguan Interchange where it merged into National Highway No. 3, and the road was 3 kilometers away.

In addition, the 189 kilometers south of National Highway No. 3 from Changhua Hemei to the 194 kilometers Changhua section also saw traffic surges, and the average driving speed was only about 3 to 40 kilometers per hour.

The National Highway Police appeal to passers-by to drive carefully for safety.

On the first day of the Ching Ming Festival holiday, there was constant rain. There was a huge traffic jam on National Highway No. 1 heading south from Changhua.

(Photo by reporter Tang Shiming)

On the first day of the Ching Ming Festival holiday, the rain continued, and Provincial Highway No. 74 Zhongzhang merged into National Highway No. 3 Kuaiguan Interchange.

(Photo by reporter Tang Shiming)