Telegram to ensure traffic safety and order during holidays and Tet

- Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just signed and issued an official dispatch on ensuring traffic order and safety during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring Festival 2015.

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The content of the telegram is as follows:

To ensure traffic order and safety, and meet people's travel needs during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring festivals of 2015, the Prime Minister requests:

1. The Ministry of Transport directs agencies, units, and enterprises under the Ministries and Departments of Transport to:

a) Have a plan to increase transport capacity, ensure technical safety of vehicles, improve ticket sales methods online, improve service quality, create maximum convenience for people to travel during the New Year and Lunar New Year; strictly control, promptly prevent and strictly handle violations and negative acts in transport activities; thoroughly handle the evils of squeezing, transferring passengers, increasing ticket prices and transportation fees against regulations. Direct the organization of transport, mobilize and increase means of transport to better serve people's travel needs, ensuring that no one cannot return home for Tet due to lack of trains or vehicles, especially in remote areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and islands.

b) Inspect and handle violations of roadsides, sidewalks, and traffic safety corridors; strictly implement regulations on labor safety, traffic organization, traffic safety assurance, and environmental protection at construction sites, especially National Highway 1A and Ho Chi Minh Road through the Central Highlands.

c) Have a plan to organize and reasonably divide traffic on key traffic routes with large traffic volumes, especially on main routes leading to major cities, routes connecting to key traffic hubs (airports, seaports, railway stations, bus stations, etc.); strengthen the management of waterway safety at river crossings, tourist attractions, and festivals; resolutely suspend the operation of illegal ferry terminals and vehicles that do not meet safety standards and life-saving equipment.

2. The Ministry of Public Security directs its affiliated agencies and the Public Security of provinces and centrally run cities to:

a) Develop a plan to patrol, control and handle violations of traffic safety and order during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring festivals of 2015; strengthen mobile patrols, combine ensuring traffic safety and order with other tasks to ensure social safety and order; focus on checking and handling violations of vehicle owners and drivers in the transport business, especially violations of vehicle load, technical safety, itinerary, driving time, picking up and dropping off passengers in violation of regulations; focus on punishing drivers who violate regulations on alcohol concentration, speed, driving in the wrong lane, avoiding and overtaking in violation of regulations, using vehicles that do not ensure technical safety; develop plans and arrange forces to prevent and combat illegal car, motorbike and scooter racing.

b) Increase the traffic police force in coordination with the Transport Inspectorate to be on duty on key traffic routes and complex traffic areas with high risk of congestion; develop plans to organize and regulate traffic, arrange sufficient forces and vehicles ready to promptly clear and rescue traffic when collisions or traffic accidents occur, and prevent prolonged traffic congestion, especially on the first and last days of the Tet holiday, focusing on National Highway 1A, the Hanoi - Lao Cai, Hanoi - Thai Nguyen expressways, Ho Chi Minh Road through the Central Highlands and National Highways 5, 51, 18, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring localities.

3. The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and the central agencies of mass organizations shall direct the promotion of propaganda about the causes and risks of traffic accidents to civil servants, public employees, union members and union members. Mobilize civil servants, public employees, union members and union members to voluntarily comply with traffic laws, take measures to prevent and avoid motorcycle and motorbike accidents, ferry accidents, and railway crossing accidents; strictly wear helmets when riding motorcycles and motorbikes; do not drive after drinking alcohol or beer; do not speed, overtake recklessly, do not carry more people than prescribed, observe safety when crossing railways, and comply with safety regulations when traveling by ferry.

4. The Ministry of Information and Communications directs press agencies to increase the time and columns for traffic safety propaganda during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring festivals of 2015; to propagate measures to limit motorcycle and motorbike accidents in rural areas, measures to prevent passenger car accidents, mountain pass accidents, boat accidents, and implement the "If you drink alcohol, do not drive" policy.

5. Vietnam Television and Voice of Vietnam direct local radio and television stations to develop and implement plans to propagate traffic safety during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring festivals of 2015 with rich and attractive program content; arrange broadcasting schedules suitable to people's living and working hours.

6. The Ministry of Education and Training directs the Departments of Education and Training to strengthen traffic awareness education for students, and at the same time directs universities and colleges to proactively coordinate with transportation businesses to organize the sale of train and bus tickets at schools for students.

7. The National Traffic Safety Committee coordinates with the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Public Security to provide hotline numbers and widely publicize them on mass media and on the Website to receive feedback from agencies, units and people on traffic safety during holidays and Tet; at the same time, direct and coordinate with relevant authorities to promptly resolve and overcome traffic incidents.

8. The People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities shall direct the local Traffic Safety Committees to develop specific plans and organize the synchronous and effective implementation of measures to ensure traffic order and safety to serve the people during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring festivals in 2015 in accordance with the practical conditions of the localities; organize the urging, inspection and reporting to the Prime Minister and the National Traffic Safety Committee on the implementation results./.

According to Chinhphu.vn