Deter drivers from misuse of emergency lanes

ON SUNDAY and Monday alone, police in Jiangsu province dealt with 4,874 cases of drivers illegally using the emergency lanes on expressways. Thepaper.cn comments:

It should be noted that only a very small percentage of those who illegally use the emergency lanes are caught by the police, and it happens much more frequently than the number of cases might suggest.

Some have called for installing more cameras to monitor the expressways and for the information of those caught illegally using the emergency lanes to be put into a special database. Yet some provinces have already adopted these measures and they have still failed to curb the illegal use of emergency lanes.