Let the fitness space better meet the needs of the elderly
A video of "Henan Zhoukou Yijian Walking Team forced to stop the vehicle and ignored the traffic lights" triggered a hot discussion among netizens. The video shows that a team holding a flag and dressing the, walking on the motorway with music, turned around at the zebra crossing, and vehicles in 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 that it will 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 the road traffic safety laws and regulations on road traffic shall be given a warning or fined from five yuan to fifty yuan. Walking teams occupy motor vehicle lanes, which violates traffic rules. Combined with the illegal circumstances and the law enforcement practice of grass-roots traffic police, the most common way to deal with it may be to give criticism and warning.
Some people may argue that they should be fined to increase their illegal cost. Of course, some people think that the walking team is a group to disturb the public traffic order, which belongs to public security violations and can be dealt with according to the relevant provisions of the Public Security Administration Punishment Law, 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 will be difficult to implement. First of all, the number of walkers ranges from a dozen to dozens of people. Faced with so many people, it is a great challenge whether the limited street police force can control the situation, not to mention fines. Secondly, the walking team violated the road traffic law, and the traffic police did have the discretion to warn and fine, but if they came up without warning, they would be fined, which was difficult to convince the public and also violated the original intention of legislation. Finally, the walkers are mostly middle-aged and elderly people, and if they want to collect fines from them, the cost of law enforcement may far exceed the fine, and the effect may not be ideal.
When dealing with such problems, traffic police can cooperate with urban management to enforce the law, because walking teams not only illegally occupy motor vehicle lanes, but also have a long-term noise nuisance problem. When enforcing the law, we can give warning, persuasion and corresponding punishment to the organizers of walking activities according to the principle of "who organizes and who is responsible". By managing the "key minority" of walking teams, we can tighten the responsibility of obeying the law and discipline, release the maximum governance effect of "rule of law+autonomy" and avoid making walking teams "illegal teams" and "disturbing people's groups".
however, even this treatment is only a palliative. It is often seen in newspapers that walking teams illegally occupy motor vehicle lanes and noise disturbs 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 on the root cause.
Why do walking teams illegally occupy motor vehicle lanes? Do they not understand traffic laws? Are they superstitious about the law and don't blame the public? These questions have some truth, but we can't avoid a bigger practical problem in these questions: if the walking 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?
Walking teams illegally occupy motor vehicle lanes, and middle-aged and elderly people compete with teenagers for venues in some cities. At first glance, these are traffic problems and public security problems, but we can think deeply about them. In fact, they are problems of providing for the elderly and people's livelihood. These problems all stem from the fact that the aging population is increasing, 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.
Middle-aged and elderly people want to keep fit and pursue a better quality of life, which is a normal and reasonable demand and 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 consideration for urban administrators is not how to deal with the problems and contradictions caused by leisure and fitness conflicts among middle-aged and elderly people, but how to effectively promote urban aging transformation, so as to create more fitness spaces and facilities that 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 think more about the supply side of leisure and fitness needs of middle-aged and elderly people, so as to achieve source governance.