Which department manages the traffic lights on the highway?

With the rapid development of the highway industry, traffic lights, a problem that was not very conspicuous in highway traffic management, have gradually emerged. Now, because of the heavy traffic flow, traffic lights are urgently needed at highway level crossings in many places. However, with regard to the management of road traffic lights, which should be the department responsible is not clearly stipulated in the law.

Some people think that the “road service facilities” stipulated in the second paragraph of Article 43 of the Highway Law and the “road auxiliary facilities” stipulated in Article 52 should include including road traffic lights. Others believe that, according to the provisions of Articles 5 and 25 of the Road Traffic Safety Law, since the road traffic safety management work is the public security department is responsible for the installation, maintenance and management of road traffic lights because they are traffic safety facilities to disambiguate. According to the nature of traffic lights and the division of responsibilities of relevant departments, the setting and management of highway traffic lights must be clarified in legislation.

Regarding the nature of traffic lights, Article 25 of the Road Traffic Safety Law stipulates: “The whole country implements unified road traffic signals. Traffic signals include traffic lights, traffic signs, traffic markings and the command of the traffic police. “Article 26 stipulates: “Traffic lights consist of red lights, green lights, and yellow lights. The red light means no passage, the green light means the passage is allowed, and the yellow light means the warning. “Article 29 of the Regulations on the Implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People’s Republic of China regulations: “Traffic lights are divided into: motor vehicle signal lights, non-motor vehicle signal lights, pedestrian crossing lights, lane lights, direction indicator lights, flashing lights. Warning lights, road and rail level crossing lights. “It can be seen from this that traffic lights are a kind of traffic signals, but they are not related to traffic signs, traffic lights, etc. The difference between the marking line is that the traffic light is a means for managers to dynamically manage the traffic order, which is similar to the command of the traffic police. traffic signal lights play the role of “representative police” and traffic rules, and belong to the same traffic command system as the command of the traffic police. So, by nature, highway traffic lights are the establishment and management responsibilities shall belong to the department in charge of traffic command and maintenance of traffic order.