Reading Tip
In the provincial capital, a 3-year "civilized traffic action plan" has been carried out with great momentum since the beginning of this year. Especially from July 10 to 23, the provincial capital's civilization office and the Shijiazhuang Public Security Traffic Management Bureau jointly launched an on-site reward activity for the "first person to stop at a red light". 184 people who were the "first pedestrian not to run a red light" and the "first non-motorized vehicle rider not to run a red light" during a certain period all received a cash reward of 500 yuan, which attracted widespread attention both inside and outside the province.
Some people believe that this practice breaks through the thinking pattern of "management" and "punishment" in traffic management, reflecting the creativity and wisdom of law enforcers, while others question whether rewarding not running a red light is materializing the awareness of rules and cannot be sustained in the long term.
Whether in agreement or criticism, it has drawn people's attention to the status of traffic rectification in the provincial capital.
Combining rewards and punishments, expecting long-term effects
"The provincial capital's traffic rectification action should become a regular behavior, and we cannot abandon it halfway when citizens just start to have the awareness of obeying traffic rules." Ms. Liu, who was rewarded for not running a red light, has lived in the provincial capital for many years. In her memory, relevant departments have carried out traffic rectification multiple times, but it is difficult to persist for a long time, so the phenomenon of "running red lights" always falls into the vicious circle of "decreasing when rectified" and "increasing after rectification".