Nghe An issues an official dispatch on strengthening traffic safety and order on the occasion of National Day September 2

On the occasion of the National Day holiday on September 2, 2022, traffic volume is forecasted to increase, potentially causing traffic accidents and traffic congestion. In order to better serve the travel needs of the people and ensure traffic order and safety during the holiday and to implement the Prime Minister's Official Dispatch No. 724/Authority-Prime Minister dated August 16, 2022, the Provincial People's Committee requests:

Department of Transport:

- Directing the development of plans to ensure capacity, quality and safety for operations.passenger transportand goods, especially passenger transport services by road, waterway and air during the National Day holiday on September 2, 2022 and travel activities of students during the new school year; require transport businesses and major traffic hubs (bus stations, train stations, airports, seaports, ports, inland waterway terminals) to strictly implement legal regulations on traffic order and safety; promote the application of technology to sell electronic tickets, improve service quality, publicly post ticket prices according to routes, times and types of services; prevent jostling and congestion at bus stations, train stations, ports, overcrowding of passengers, carrying more than the prescribed number of people, picking up and dropping off passengers at the wrong places, especially on key national highways, waterways from shore to islands, tourist destinations; Strictly control passenger transport vehicles and drivers right from the beginning of stations, ports; comply with regulations on Covid-19 prevention and control.

A corner of Vinh City. Photo: Le Thang

- Strengthen inspection of safety conditions of traffic infrastructure works; promptly repair damages; review and supplement traffic signal systems, especially on road sections with steep slopes, narrow curves, limited visibility... posing potential traffic safety risks; direct construction and maintenance units of traffic infrastructure to strengthen guidance, ensure traffic, and take timely remedial measures when incidents occur.

- Coordinate with the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to proactively develop plans to organize safe and smooth traffic, especially on routes and areas with high risk of traffic accidents and traffic jams, main axes in Vinh city, national highways, key traffic hubs, tourist sites, entertainment areas, bus stations, wharves, train stations, and construction sites; apply science and technology to promptly detect traffic jams on routes and key traffic hubs and have timely solutions.

- Strengthen inspection of safety conditions of traffic infrastructure works; promptly repair damaged and landslide-prone road sections due to recent rain and floods, especially in mountainous areas; inspect and supplement the system of painted lines, traffic signs, traffic lights, reflective warning devices at intersections, road sections with high slopes, narrow curves, limited visibility... that pose potential traffic safety risks; direct construction and maintenance units of infrastructure to strengthen guidance, ensure traffic, and take timely remedial measures when incidents occur.

- Direct the Traffic Inspectorate to coordinate with the Police forces to develop a plan to organize traffic flow; Arrange forces on duty at complex traffic areas to take timely measures to regulate and clear traffic, avoiding traffic jams. Strengthen inspection and handling of violations of passenger transport vehicles, especially buses, to prevent reckless driving, fighting for passengers, weaving and swerving, affecting traffic order and safety.

- Coordinate with local authorities at all levels to strengthen the management of waterway safety at passenger wharves across the river and tourist attractions. Resolutely suspend the operation of illegal wharves and vehicles that do not ensure conditions and life-saving equipment. Actively promote and remind passengers to use life jackets and flotation devices when crossing the river by boat.

Dien Chau Traffic Police Station strengthens alcohol concentration control for drivers. Photo: D.C.

Provincial Police:

- Direct the police of units and localities to focus on patrolling, controlling and strictly handling violations of traffic safety order; pay attention to serious violations that are direct causes of traffic accidents and traffic jams, such as speeding, violating regulations on alcohol and drug concentration, carrying more people than prescribed, violating load capacity, not wearing seat belts while sitting in cars, driving in the wrong part of the road, lane, driving in the wrong direction, vehicles that have expired, expired inspection; violations when crossing the road; carrying more than the safe waterline; vehicles that do not ensure technical safety; not equipped with life-saving or anti-sink equipment; no driving license or professional certificate; proactively prevent, stop and strictly handle gatherings that disturb public order, illegal racing; resolutely handle and suppress subjects who act against law enforcement officers.

- Develop plans to prevent and stop illegal racing. Focus on implementing measures to ensure traffic order and safety in school areas, to avoid traffic congestion on the opening day. Strengthen traffic safety inspections at river crossings, wharves, tourist boats, on complicated waterways and routes, especially during rain, storms and floods.

- Arrange for traffic police and public order police to coordinate with traffic inspectors to be on duty on key traffic routes, areas at risk of traffic congestion and areas where traffic accidents often occur; develop plans to organize and regulate traffic, arrange enough rescue vehicles to promptly resolve incidents and prevent traffic congestion;

- Direct the Traffic Police Department to synthesize and report daily traffic order and safety situations during the National Day holiday (from September 1 to September 4, 2022), send to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Traffic Safety Committee before 2:00 p.m. every day for synthesis and reporting to the Provincial People's Committee and the National Traffic Safety Committee according to regulations.

Department of Education and Training; Universities and Colleges:

Implementing the "Peak Month of Traffic Safety for Students Going to School - September", schools promote education on knowledge and skills of safe traffic participation for students, strengthen guidance for students to comply with traffic rules when driving electric motorbikes and electric bicycles to ensure traffic safety; coordinate with functional agencies and local authorities to ensure traffic order and safety at school gates; strictly control the quality of vehicles and transportation services for picking up and dropping off students.

Department of Information and Communications; Provincial Radio and Television Station and press agencies in the province:

Increase the time and content of traffic safety propaganda during the holidays; focus on propaganda warnings about non-compliance with the law causing traffic accidents, penalties, prevention measures and traffic participation skills; warn about traffic accidents due to alcohol concentration violations, lack of attention from side roads to main roads, drowning at beaches, lakes, dams, hydroelectric reservoirs...

Proposal to the Provincial Youth Union:

Strengthening the propaganda and education of laws on traffic safety and order, raising the awareness of law observance among youth union members; mobilizing youth volunteers to participate in propaganda and traffic guidance at key intersections, crowded areas, ferry terminals, tourist areas, school gates, residential roads, railway crossings... to ensure traffic safety during holidays and the new school year.

Propose the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, social organizationsStrengthen propaganda and mobilize organizations and individuals to comply with legal regulations on traffic safety and order, and voluntarily relocate and dismantle illegal constructions within the traffic safety corridor.

Standing Committee of Provincial Traffic Safety Committee

- Monitor and urge relevant sectors and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to properly implement the directions of the Provincial People's Committee on ensuring traffic order and safety during the National Day holiday on September 2, 2022. Synthesize and report on the traffic order and safety situation during the 4-day National Day holiday (from September 1 to September 4, 2022), and send it to the Provincial People's Committee and the National Traffic Safety Committee before 3:00 p.m. on September 4, 2022.

- Widely publicize on mass media the hotline number to receive people's feedback on traffic safety and order, coordinate to promptly resolve and handle traffic incidents and accidents.

Road Traffic Police Team No. 1 - Traffic Police Department (Nghe An Provincial Police) propagated and organized the signing of commitments to strictly comply with the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Control of Harmful Effects of Alcohol and Beer at restaurants, pubs, and karaoke bars along National Highway 48. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

People's Committees of districts, cities and towns

- Strengthen propaganda and dissemination of lawtraffic safety, safe traffic participation skills to raise people's awareness, do not drive over the speed limit; do not drive after drinking alcohol, do not use the phone while driving; wear a seat belt when sitting in a car participating in traffic; stop the car to observe safety when crossing a railway crossing and when going from a side road to a main road; wear a standard helmet when riding a motorbike, scooter, electric bicycle; wear a life jacket according to regulations when taking a boat; propagate, mobilize, and encourage people to use public transport.

- Implementing the "Peak month of traffic safety for students going to school - September", schools promote education on knowledge and skills of safe traffic participation for students; organize signing of commitments to comply with traffic safety regulations between schools, families and students; coordinate with functional agencies and local authorities to ensure order and traffic safety at school gates; continue to build "Safe School Gate" models.

- Coordinate with the Provincial Police and the Department of Transport to strengthen state management of passenger transport activities on roads, railways and inland waterways. Mobilize forces to participate in ensuring traffic order and safety at bus stations, train stations, river crossings, tourist areas, hydroelectric reservoirs and on key routes. Focus on implementing measures to ensure traffic order and safety in school areas, to avoid traffic congestion on the opening day of the new school year.

- Organize a campaign to clear violations and prevent re-encroachment of road and railway traffic safety corridors in the area, especially on key traffic routes and areas... Resolutely handle violations and confiscate administrative violation evidence according to the law for acts of re-encroachment of road and railway traffic safety corridors according to Plan 36/Ke pha- UBND Nhân Dân dated January 20, 2022 of the Provincial People's Committee, clarify the responsibilities of individuals and organizations that allow encroachment and re-encroachment of traffic safety corridors.

Handling violations of traffic safety corridors in Nam Dan town. Photo: D.C.

- Check and review to determine unsafe traffic points in the management area, ensure traffic safety at suspension bridges and residential bridges, temporarily stop the operation of unsafe works, promptly organize maintenance and repair to help people travel safely and conveniently.

- For localities with operating ferry terminals, the roads up and down the terminals must be repaired to ensure convenience and safety, and regular inspections must be carried out to prevent the situation of carrying more people than the prescribed number at the terminals.ferry terminalkey; supplement life-saving equipment, monitor the use of life-saving equipment when traveling by boat.

- The People's Committees of districts, cities and towns with railways passing through shall mobilize local socio-political organizations to coordinate with functional forces to participate in vigilance and traffic guidance at points with high risk of traffic accidents, especially at residential roads, self-opened paths and unsafe railway crossings in the area. The Chairman of the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns shall be responsible to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee if traffic accidents occur at railway crossings in the area.

- Requesting Directors of Departments, Heads of relevant departments and branches; Chairmen of People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to seriously implement this Official Dispatch; report on the situation of traffic order and safety during the 4-day National Day holiday (from September 1 to 4, 2022), and send it to the Standing Committee of the Provincial Traffic Safety Committee before 2:00 p.m. on September 4, 2022.