Ensuring traffic safety, urban order, environmental sanitation and fire prevention during the April 30 holiday

(Baonghean.vn) -Vinh City People's Committee issued Official Dispatch No. 04 dated April 26, 2017 on ensuring traffic safety, urban order, environmental sanitation and fire prevention and fighting on the occasion of April 30 and May 1 holidays.

The content of the telegram clearly states:

In recent times, the People's Committees of wards, communes, departments, branches and units have made great efforts in ensuring traffic safety and order, urban order, environmental sanitation, fire prevention and fighting and have achieved remarkable results, contributing to socio-economic development and building civilized urban areas.

However, the situation is still complicated, the re-encroachment of traffic safety corridors (HTCs) and urban sidewalks causes traffic obstruction and congestion... The main reason is that the leadership and direction in this field in some wards, communes and units is not regular and lacks determination; the dissemination of law is not effective; the awareness of law compliance of many people is still limited; the patrol, control and handling of violations is not focused, not timely preventing violations...

During the 4-day holiday of April 30 and May 1, 2017, it is expected that the number of people gathering in the city will increase dramatically, and commercial and service activities, entertainment will also take place more and more vibrantly. In order to effectively ensure traffic safety and order, urban order, environmental sanitation and fire prevention and fighting (TTATGT, TTĐT, VSMT and PCCC) in Vinh city during the holiday of April 30 and May 1, 2017, and at the same time strictly implement Official Dispatch No. 06/CD-UBND dated April 19, 2017 of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee and Official Dispatch No. 1031/SGTVT-TTr dated April 18, 2017 of the Department of Transport, the City People's Committee requests the Chairmen of the People's Committees of wards and communes; Heads of agencies and units under the City to effectively implement the following contents:

1. The People's Committees of wards and communes shall preside over and coordinate with the City Police force and the City Urban Order Management Team to:

- Strengthen propaganda work so that traffic participants raise their awareness of voluntarily complying with the law and measures to prevent traffic accidents, especially motorbike, bus and waterway accidents; comply with not driving after consuming alcohol or beer; do not encroach on road and railway traffic safety corridors...

- Strengthen State management of passenger transport activities on roads, railways and inland waterways; take measures to prevent traffic accidents at black spots, key intersections, road and railway crossings, etc. in the area under their management. For wards and communes with ferry terminals and waterways passing through, inland waterway vehicles must be regularly inspected to prevent vehicles from violating technical safety and not meeting conditions for circulation.

Traffic police force of Cua Lo town directs traffic. Photo: Canh Nam

- Strictly implement Plan No. 62 - KH/BCĐ dated March 29, 2017 of the Vinh City Urban Order Steering Committee, focusing on: Handling and dismantling signs, billboards, erasing and strictly handling illegal advertisements and classified ads; illegal awnings and canopies, temporary markets, spontaneous markets on roads and sidewalks; camps, tarpaulins, umbrellas on sidewalks; illegal construction material gathering points; spontaneous temporary houses; frames for cars and construction materials; using business and production premises, parking lots, washing cars and motorbikes on sidewalks and roads, gathering places for goods, street vendors...; focusing on main streets and public areas.

- Review the locations of accumulated waste in the area and mobilize organizations, unions and people to carry out a general environmental cleaning, ensuring the streets are clean and tidy, to be completed before April 29, 2017; assign staff to direct and supervise the general environmental cleaning of the blocks and hamlets.

- Assign officers to maintain patrols and control construction order; arrange forces to strictly and promptly handle violations of construction order during the holidays; If any ward or commune allows violations to arise and does not handle them promptly and neatly, causing consequences, the Chairman of the People's Committee and urban officers of that ward or commune will be considered for disciplinary action with the lightest level being a warning.

- Strengthen the propaganda and dissemination of regulations and laws on fire prevention and fighting, focusing on propaganda about the risk of fire and explosion and providing specific instructions on fire prevention and fighting measures in daily life; especially fire prevention measures in the use of electricity, welding and cutting of metals, petroleum and liquefied gas trading activities, and incense burning and worship. Strengthen inspection and urge agencies, organizations, units, and businesses with fire and explosion risks to strictly comply with fire prevention and fighting regulations.

2. Vinh City Police mobilized maximum traffic police force, other police forces, including ward and commune police:

- Direct functional forces to regularly urge and inspect traffic safety at spontaneous train stations, bus stations, and ferry terminals, and resolutely suspend vehicles that do not meet technical safety conditions, vehicles carrying more people than prescribed, or people who do not meet the prescribed conditions to operate vehicles.

- Regularly on duty on key traffic routes, complex traffic areas with high risk of traffic accidents and traffic jams.

- Continue to maintain and expand special working groups, coordinate with forces (including ward and commune police) to strengthen patrols and control of key areas and routes, promptly detect and handle violations of traffic safety and order, especially passenger vans and taxis that do not ensure technical safety of vehicles, illegal vehicles, speeding and reckless driving, competing for passengers, stopping, parking, picking up and dropping off passengers in the wrong places, passenger vans carrying explosives, toxic substances, driving vehicles under the influence of alcohol or beer; oversized and overloaded vehicles, entering prohibited routes, violating operating hours on routes prohibited for trucks; vehicles carrying raw materials scattered on the road, farm vehicles, homemade vehicles circulating on the roads...; encroaching on the roadway, curb, and sidewalk for production and business; violations by motorcyclists, motorbike drivers, electric bicycle drivers; violations of inland waterway traffic safety...

- Coordinate with the Traffic Inspectorate to organize traffic flow; arrange forces at key routes and intersections to separate lanes, guide traffic flow, and ensure smooth traffic, especially during peak times; develop plans to organize and regulate traffic, arrange sufficient rescue vehicles to promptly resolve incidents, and avoid prolonged traffic congestion.

3. Request Fire Police Department No. 1:Coordinate with the People's Committees of wards, communes, departments, offices and related units to strengthen fire prevention and fighting inspections, focusing on key political, economic and cultural establishments; key areas and establishments with high risk of fire and explosion such as: crowded places, dance halls, karaoke bars, apartments, high-rise buildings, markets, shopping malls, garment manufacturing establishments, large warehouses, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas, establishments in industrial parks... Organize well the maintenance of standing forces, patrols and fire prevention and fighting guards before, during and after the April 30 and May 1, 2017 holidays.

4. City Urban Order Management Team:Strengthen activities according to assigned functions and tasks, coordinate with the City Police, People's Committees of wards and communes, strictly implement Plan No. 62 - KH/BCĐ dated March 29, 2017 of the Vinh City Urban Order Steering Committee.

5. Department of Education and Training, schools in the City:

- Direct schools to strengthen propaganda and education to raise awareness of law compliance for students before the holiday, continue to organize students to sign commitments on traffic safety laws; educate students to be aware of participating in maintaining environmental hygiene in the area and at school.

- Implement traffic safety education for students, continue to strictly prohibit students from driving motorbikes and scooters when they are underage, require students from 6 years old and up to wear helmets when riding motorbikes, scooters, and electric bicycles; do not gather in front of the school gate, ride bicycles side by side, causing traffic obstruction.

- Coordinate with local authorities to implement measures to ensure traffic safety, traffic order and safety, and environmental sanitation at school gates, to prevent traffic jams (pay attention to thoroughly informing parents when taking their children to school that they are not allowed to stop, park, or turn their cars in front of school gates, causing traffic jams).

6. Organizations, social organizations, and the City Radio and Television Station shall promote the dissemination of laws on traffic safety, information technology, environmental sanitation, and fire prevention and fighting on mass media; increase broadcasting time and news articles on traffic safety, information technology, environmental sanitation, and fire prevention and fighting; propagate and mobilize organizations, individuals, members, and families to comply with the provisions of the law on traffic safety, information technology, environmental sanitation, and fire prevention and fighting, voluntarily relocate and dismantle constructions that violate traffic safety corridors; at the same time, warn about the consequences of traffic accidents associated with traffic safety skills instruction, measures to prevent traffic accidents, especially accidents involving motorbikes, motorbikes, and passenger cars; Vinh City Youth Union mobilizes volunteer youth to participate in propaganda and traffic guidance at key intersections and crowded areas to ensure traffic safety before, during, and after the holidays.

7. Investors with projects in the City:Direct the construction unit to properly implement the approved construction and environmental measures, and not to affect traffic safety, urban planning, environmental sanitation and fire prevention. For traffic works that are both under construction and in operation, measures must be taken to ensure traffic safety and order, guide vehicles to move safely, clear construction materials, machinery and equipment, and arrange adequate lights and signs. In places where construction has not been completed, smooth connections must be made to ensure smooth and safe traffic to prevent traffic jams and traffic accidents.

8. Nghe An Province Urban Environment and Construction Joint Stock Company:Mobilize human resources and means to collect household waste and construction waste that are not collected in designated places, ensure environmental sanitation, and prevent waste from accumulating in the city before, during and after the April 30 and May 1, 2017 holidays.

9. Vinh City Green Park Joint Stock Company:Organize forces to collect fallen branches and leaves on roads, highways, and traffic islands; trim and prop up trees and broken branches that block the view of road users and cause traffic insecurity. Complete before April 29, 2017.

10. Vinh Urban Infrastructure Management and Development Joint Stock Company:Organize inspection of traffic safety system, technical infrastructure system to promptly detect, repair and maintain traffic light system, replace and repair burnt out or damaged lights; repair damaged signs, install additional missing signs, add prohibition signs; paint lane markings on blurred roads; operate the city-wide lighting system well. Complete before April 29, 2017.

11. The Urban Management Department is assigned to regularly monitor, guide, urge and inspect the implementation of this Official Dispatch.

Requesting Chairmen of People's Committees of wards and communes; Heads of agencies and units under the City, political organizations, social organizations at the City level and Schools to seriously and promptly implement and be responsible for the performance of tasks under their authority before the City People's Committee.

Vinh City People's Committee