Ryan: 90% helmet wearing rate, civilized travel starts from "head"

Source: Wenzhou Civilization Website Published on: September 1, 2023

To jointly promote the beauty of civilization in the whole city and go to the appointment of civilization of the whole people. This year, Rui'an City launched the brand of "Wenli Chengrui Mingde Zhi'an", improved the normal long-term mechanism for the construction of a national civilized city, made every effort to promote the creation of a national civilized city, and was committed to writing the chapter of Rui'an's civilization.

Civilized, safe and unblocked traffic environment is an important indicator of a civilized city, and it is also the people's expectation for a better life. With its convenience, environmental protection and other characteristics, electric bicycles have become "close partners" for citizens to travel. However, with the popularity of electric bicycles, problems such as running red lights, parking in disorder, driving on the wrong road, and not wearing safety helmets also follow.

Since last year, Rui'an has continued to promote the "key action to greatly improve the urban civilization for the Asian Games", and the city appearance, living environment, traffic environment, and business environment have improved significantly. Recently, the reporter took to the streets to observe the wearing of safety helmets by electric bicycle drivers in Rui'an during the morning and evening rush hours. It was found that most of the citizens have formed the awareness of wearing safety helmets when riding electric bicycles. Some citizens laughed, "Wear safety helmets, and civilized travel starts from the 'head'."

Crouching observation

Helmet wearing rate 92%

At 17:06 on August 15, at the intersection of Wansong East Road and Anyang Road, a total of 7 out of 100 electric bicycles passing through the intersection did not wear safety helmets, with a wearing rate of 93%.

At 8:45 on August 16, at the intersection of Luoyang Avenue and Ruixiang Avenue, 11 out of 100 electric bicycles passing through the intersection did not wear safety helmets, with a wearing rate of 89%.

At 17:53 on August 16, at the intersection of Wansong Road and Hongqiao Road, a total of 6 out of 100 electric bicycles passing through the intersection did not wear safety helmets, with a wearing rate of 94%.

Crossing of Wansong East Road and Anyang Road

The average wearing rate of electric bicycle safety helmets at the above three intersections is 92%. The above drivers who do not wear safety helmets are stopped by the traffic police on duty at the scene for safety and civilization education or corresponding fines.

"This data is a random proportion at a specific time and at a specific intersection. Although it cannot completely and objectively represent the situation of Rui'an citizens riding electric bikes wearing safety helmets, it can reflect the changes of electric bikes wearing safety helmets at a specific time and at a specific intersection." The person in charge of the traffic police brigade of the municipal public security bureau introduced. According to incomplete statistics from the traffic police department, the wearing of safety helmets on electric bicycles in Rui'an is better in urban areas than in rural areas, and better in the daytime than at night. At intersections in urban areas and during morning and evening rush hours, the proportion of citizens driving electric bicycles wearing safety helmets is increasing year by year, from the initial lack of awareness of wearing safety helmets to the habit of wearing them by themselves and for children in the back seat, It shows the change of citizens' concept of safe and civilized travel.

Based on the rule of law

Take multiple measures to promote civilization

It is understood that before 2019, driving an electric bicycle without a safety helmet is not the focus of traffic safety and civilized travel supervision, but is in the "vacuum zone" of supervision.

In January 2019, the Regulations on the Promotion of Civilized Behaviors in Wenzhou City included the failure to wear safety helmets as one of the uncivilized behaviors to focus on remediation; In July 2020, the Regulations of Zhejiang Province on the Administration of Electric Bicycles strengthened the management of electric bicycles. According to relevant laws and regulations, while advocating the safety and civilization of electric bicycles, relevant departments of Rui'an City further improve the civilized quality of citizens and the level of social civilization by carrying out joint law enforcement, on-site rectification activities and normalized management.

Crossing of Wansong Road and Hongqiao Road

Since this year, the Propaganda Department of Rui'an Municipal Party Committee (the Civilized Center of Rui'an City) and the Traffic Police Brigade of Rui'an City have actively advocated civilized travel and safe travel, based on the actual situation of the city, made efforts from multiple points, and deeply promoted the civilized traffic deepening action of "the action to greatly improve urban civilization for the Asian Games" in accordance with the working idea of "strengthening daily management, consolidating the rectification results, and establishing a long-term mechanism", At the same time, relying on the "three vehicles" renovation and the "one helmet and one belt" security guard action, we will focus on investigating and dealing with the traffic violations of electric bicycles, such as not wearing safety helmets, running red lights, and going against the road. We will strengthen the control of electric bicycles during the morning and evening rush hours, and regularly carry out centralized rectification actions for the traffic violations of electric bicycles, Effectively curb and reduce road traffic violations of electric bicycles. As of August 15, a total of 53000 cases without safety helmets had been investigated and dealt with, and the number of electric bicycle accidents in the city had dropped significantly, which effectively improved the travel safety index of citizens and created a civilized and unobstructed travel environment.

Wearing safety helmets is a microcosm of traffic civilization, which is also a window to show urban civilization. Relying on the publicity matrix, Rui'an City strengthened the warning exposure, exposed typical traffic accident cases involving electric bicycles, and organized takeaway enterprises, express delivery companies, and environmental sanitation enterprises to carry out centralized publicity and education for electric bicycle drivers in batches, actively creating a good atmosphere of traffic safety and civilization, and helping Rui'an City to build a global, high-level, national and civilized city. (Rui'an Civilization Center)