Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link Temporary Closure of Underwater Tunnel Floodlights for Safety

TapTechNews July 11th news, since its opening to traffic on June 30th, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link has become the 'top traffic' in the Bay Area, and the traffic flow has continued to remain at a high level. According to the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link Management Center, as of July 7th, the cross-city bus special line between Shenzhen and Zhongshan has made a total of 2014 trips in both directions and sent a total of 72,300 passengers, about 10,000 passengers per day on average.

However, recently, the underwater tunnel floodlights of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, which many citizens have been concerned about, have been turned off. The official said that in the future, according to the actual needs of operation management, appropriate adjustments will be made to the landscape lighting along the whole line to ensure the safe passage of citizens and tourists.

According to the official introduction, the lighting of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link is divided into two parts: road lighting and landscape lighting. Among them, the underwater tunnel of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link is lined with intelligent adjustable full-color landscape light strips on both sides, which can change colors according to the ambient temperature and traffic flow conditions.

Under normal traffic conditions, it will show green or blue-white, and can set up water-flow running and other functions to relieve the visual fatigue of long-distance tunnel passage. In case of traffic accidents or emergencies, the intelligent light strip shows red, yellow, and green in sections from near to far, playing an alerting role and guiding people to evacuate orderly.

In addition to the landscape light strips, the middle section of the underwater tunnel uses the form of floodlights, projecting some patterns onto the top of the tunnel, with a length of about 500 feet, mainly used to relieve the driver's driving fatigue.

But after the project was opened to traffic, many self-media overly exaggerated and exaggerated the projection effect, and even edited 3D animation effects such as the underwater world to cause misunderstandings, resulting in some drivers deliberately reducing their speed and slowing down to watch and take pictures when driving to this section.

This driving method not only caused certain safety hazards to a certain extent, but also directly led to severe congestion in the tunnel.

In this case, for the consideration of safety and smoothness, the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link has temporarily turned off the underwater tunnel floodlights for now. At the same time, the management and operation side will make appropriate adjustments to the landscape lighting along the whole line according to the actual needs to better protect the lives and property of the vast number of travelers and ensure the saf e and smooth passage of the road.

According to TapTechNews' previous report, there were also many illegal parking behaviors on the first day of the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link. The official of Zhongshan Traffic Police said that the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link has 24-hour video patrols with no blind spots and no dead angles. Please do not park illegally and take pictures.