A video of "Henan Zhoukou Jianyi Hiking Team stopped the vehicle and ignored the traffic lights" triggered a hot discussion among netizens. The video shows that a team holding the national flag, dressed in costumes and walking on the motorway with music turned around at the zebra crossing, and vehicles from all directions had to stop and wait. The traffic lights changed three times before the walking team finished. In this regard, the local traffic brigade said it would investigate and deal with it. ?
According to the relevant provisions of China's Road Traffic Safety Law, pedestrians, passengers and non-motor vehicle drivers who violate road traffic safety laws and regulations will be given a warning or fined from five yuan to fifty yuan. Walking teams occupy motor vehicle lanes, which violates traffic regulations. Combining the illegal circumstances with the law enforcement practice of grass-roots traffic police, the most common way to deal with it may be to give criticism and warning.
Maybe some people will argue that they should be fined to increase their illegal cost. Of course, some people think that the trekking team is a group that disturbs the order of public transportation, and it is a public security violation. It can be dealt with according to the relevant provisions of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, so that the punishment is stronger and the deterrent effect is stronger. This view cannot be said to be unreasonable, but I am afraid it is difficult to implement. First of all, the number of pedestrians varies from a dozen to dozens. In the face of so many people, whether the limited street police force can control the situation is a great challenge, let alone a fine. Secondly, the walking team violates the road traffic law, and the traffic police do have the discretion to warn and fine. However, it is difficult to convince the public if they come up with a fine without warning, and it also violates the original intention of legislation. Finally, pedestrians are mostly middle-aged and elderly people. If fines are imposed on them, the cost of law enforcement may far exceed the fines, and the effect may not be satisfactory.
When dealing with such problems, the traffic police can cooperate with the urban management to enforce the law, because the walking team not only illegally occupies the motor vehicle lane, but also has the problem of noise disturbing the people for a long time. When enforcing the law, the organizers of hiking activities can be warned, persuaded and punished according to the principle of "who organizes and who is responsible". By managing the "key minority", we can tighten the responsibility of obeying the law, release the maximum governance effect of "rule of law+autonomy", and avoid making the walking team an "illegal team" and a "disturbing group".
However, even if this is done, it will only cure the symptoms, not the root cause. It is often seen in newspapers that the walking team illegally occupies the motor vehicle lane and the noise disturbs the people. News supervision, public criticism, traffic police warning and expert appeal seem to have exhausted their means, but they still can't stop similar things from happening again. This shows that the problem has not been solved from the root, so in the face of such urban governance ills, we should switch from processing thinking to governance thinking and work hard at the root.
Why do hiking teams illegally occupy motor vehicle lanes? Don't they understand traffic laws? Are they superstitious about the law and don't blame the public? These problems have some truth, but we can't avoid a bigger practical problem: if the pedestrian team doesn't illegally occupy the motorway, where else can they go? In other words, does the city provide enough fitness and leisure space for middle-aged and elderly people?
Hiking teams illegally occupy motor vehicle lanes, and middle-aged and elderly people in some cities compete with teenagers for venues. At first glance, these are all traffic problems and public security problems, but we can think deeply. In fact, it's all about supporting the elderly and people's livelihood. These problems stem from the increasing aging population, and the public fitness facilities and spaces in many cities have not been transformed in time to meet the explosive growth of fitness and leisure needs of middle-aged and elderly people.
It is a normal and reasonable demand for middle-aged and elderly people to keep fit and pursue a better quality of life, which should be given enough attention and satisfaction. If middle-aged and elderly people want to March in groups, they must occupy motor vehicle lanes, and if they want to dance square dance, they must compete with teenagers for territory. Such urban fitness facilities and space supply are unfriendly and unfair to middle-aged and elderly people.
Therefore, what is more worthy of urban managers' consideration is not how to deal with the problems and contradictions caused by the leisure and fitness conflicts of middle-aged and elderly people, but how to effectively promote the transformation of urban aging, so as to create more fitness spaces and facilities to meet the needs of middle-aged and elderly people and let them enjoy their old age healthily. Urban managers need to think more upstream and consider the supply side of leisure and fitness needs of middle-aged and elderly people to achieve source management.