Department of Transportation has just implemented a plan to better serve the travel needs of the people, ensure order and traffic safety during the New Year, the Lunar New Year Festival of 2020.
Passenger vehicles are gathered at the provincial bus station. Photo: Minh Duy
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Mr. Nguyen Chi Hieu, Deputy Director of the Department of Transport, said that implementing the said plan, the unit actively cooperates with all levels, sectors, localities and transport business units to effectively implement the plan. solutions to ensure traffic safety; improve the efficiency of state management and the sense of responsibility of officials on duty. The Department always strives to ensure smooth, safe traffic, well serving the travel needs of the people on the occasion of New Year's Day, Lunar New Year and the Spring Canh Ty Festival 2020; meet the requirements of transporting goods and passengers during Tet holiday; contribute to reduce traffic accidents (traffic accidents) in the province and prevent prolonged traffic congestion.
In order for the implementation of the plan to achieve results, the Department of Transport is increasing the propaganda and education of traffic safety laws to raise the awareness of law enforcement of traffic participants, especially awareness raising and sense of self-compliance with the laws of the driving team and transport business units. In addition, the department directs specialized units to review the quality and technical safety of vehicles involved in traffic; coordinate with units handling vehicles which do not ensure traffic safety.
At the peak of the occasion before, during and after the Lunar New Year of the Rat, the department recommends that the relevant units mobilize the maximum available means of transport to transport passengers in any situation, without any situation. congested guests at traffic hubs. Along with that, the department has built a plan to increase flights and passenger services to ensure that workers outside the province have means to return home to celebrate Tet. At the same time, the department has built a plan for channeling and arranging traffic control forces in urban areas and festivals, not allowing prolonged traffic congestion.
In order to ensure the safe traveling of people and vehicles, as well as to embellish the urban face of roads, the Department of Transport has assigned specialized sections to review, inspect and reorganize the assigned infrastructure. pine; revise the marker posts, signs, signals and buoys to make timely replenishment, especially at locations that are likely to happen. The Department requires its subordinate units to strictly implement traffic safety measures at the construction traffic projects, to return the road surface to ensure safety for people, vehicles during Tet and take measures to ensure convenient and safe means of transportation on roads. The Department also directed the construction of the diversion plan and coordinated with the functional units to arrange the traffic regulation force at the roads and areas where the festivals were held.
For road management and exploitation units and BOT enterprises, the Department recommends that there should be a plan to arrange the direct personnel to promptly coordinate with the functional forces to organize traffic regulation in order to limit. traffic congestion when entering the tollgate; improve traffic safety conditions at intersections. The Department also proposed relevant units to promptly handle and clear vehicles to limit congestion before entering the road toll station. In case of a traffic jam before entering the road toll station, the relevant unit must open the barie to clear the vehicle.
Strictly handling violations
The Department of Transport has set up a Steering Committee for the New Year, Lunar New Year of 2020. In addition, the department has published a hotline phone number to receive and promptly handle information on transport, traffic accidents, road and bridge incidents, traffic jams.
“The Department will set up an interdisciplinary inspection team with the Department of Finance and the Provincial Public Security Department to prepare preparations for the 2020 Tet holiday and list and declare the freight rates of bus terminal operators and transport enterprises. download. At the same time, the department cooperates with the passenger transport business units and bus stations to mobilize the maximum means to transport passengers during the Tet holiday to ensure that people can travel conveniently, safely and resolutely. do not let passengers slow to welcome New Year due to lack of transportation," Mr. Hieu said.
Currently, the Department of Transport has assigned the Provincial Waterways Authority to strengthen the management of cross-river passenger wharves and passenger waterway transports; resolutely suspend the operation of illegal wharves and means that are ineligible for operation; actively advocating for passengers to wear life jackets when traveling by boat. The Department has been strengthening the state management of road motor vehicle registration at the registry centers. Accordingly, the department actively cooperates with the registry centers to update information, the number of vehicles expiring, does not ensure the conditions for traffic to send functional forces to coordinate to handle when owners of vehicles and drivers take advantage of the increasing transport demand during Tet to bring about illegal activities, thus causing traffic loss.
The Department requires the traffic inspectorate to intensify the inspection and coordinate with the inspection forces to promptly detect and handle the situation of parachutes, toads, running the wrong way, being overloaded, and overloaded. the number of people stipulating, raising fares in contravention of regulations, failing to meet the conditions and standards of vehicles, drivers of vehicles as prescribed ... The Department also actively cooperates with local police in the province to ensure traffic safety; inspect, prevent and strictly handle violations of transportation of banned goods, goods of unclear origin, goods which are sources of arising or spreading epidemics ... in the upcoming Tet holiday.
Reported by Minh Duy – Translated by Vi Bao
