Nghe An: Deploying passenger transport plan for Tet and Spring Festival 2023

The conference approved the Provincial People's Committee's Decision on establishing a Steering Committee for passenger transport services during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring Festival of Quy Mao in 2023.

Conference scene. Photo: Thanh Le

The establishment of the Steering Committee to carry out the work of serving people's travel needs well, ensuring traffic order and safety during the New Year, Lunar New Year and the Spring festival season of Quy Mao in 2023.

Accordingly, to best serve the travel needs of people during Tet, the Steering Committee requires transport businesses to arrange vehicles, increase, supplement or transfer vehicles, drivers and service staff when people need them. At the same time, well manage the driver team, the operation process, and strictly comply with the Road Traffic Law.

Comrade Nguyen Sy Thang - Head of Transport Management Department, Department of Transport announced the decision to establish a Steering Committee to serve passengers during the New Year, Lunar New Year and Spring Festival of Quy Mao in 2023. Photo: Thanh Le

Have a plan to check transport safety conditions, improve transport quality to ensure convenient and safe travel for passengers, and prevent passengers from being late in returning home for Tet due to lack of means of transport; strictly comply with regulations on registration, post the correct registered fares, and do not arbitrarily increase fares.

The relevant authorities and units, within their authority, shall urge and direct the good implementation of the proposed plan, ensuring timely response when the demand for travel and freight transport increases, especially at traffic hubs, ensuring the clearance of passengers and minimizing traffic congestion; ensuring convenient travel for people, welcoming the New Year happily and safely.

Lieutenant Colonel Hoang Duy Ha - representative of the Provincial Police Department spoke and proposed the need for fundamental solutions to deal with the situation of illegal vehicles. Photo: Thanh Le

At the same time, the Department of Transport will coordinate with the People's Committees of districts, cities, towns and related agencies to strengthen propaganda and mobilize people, businesses and transport units to strictly comply with legal regulations on ensuring traffic order and safety; strengthen coordination in management; regularly inspect and resolutely handle vehicle owners and drivers of passenger vehicles who do not ensure the conditions as prescribed.

Bus stations and train stations need to be cleaned up and arranged to provide information so that passengers can proactively choose their trips. The Department of Transport has asked transport businesses to proactively sell tickets in advance to passengers in many forms. Apply information technology to facilitate people who need to buy tickets, and at the same time have measures to prevent ticket speculation and trading that cause social disorder.

Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Ham Thang - Deputy Chief of Vinh City Police Department spoke about the proposal to manage the driver team. Photo: Thanh Le

The plan will start from December 25, 2022 to January 7, 2023; Lunar New Year from December 20 to the afternoon of December 30 (ie from January 11, 2023 to January 21, 2023); Quy Mao Spring Festival from January 4 to the end of the season.

Concluding the conference, comrade Nguyen Van Hai - Deputy Director of the Department of Transport emphasized: During Tet, people's travel needs increase, so it is recommended that transport units repair, maintain, and upgrade vehicles; require drivers to sign a commitment to regulations, minimize potential factors that cause traffic safety risks; pick up and drop off passengers at the right places.

Mr. Vo Duy Thanh - Deputy General Director of Nghe An Bus Station Joint Stock Company spoke about the coordination between the bus station and transport enterprises. Photo: Thanh Le

Bus stations, train stations, and Vinh International Airport need to renovate and coordinate to check passengers and goods before departure; ensuring to serve people's travel needs safely and conveniently.

Comrade Nguyen Van Hai - Deputy Director of the Department of Transport concluded at the conference. Photo: Thanh Le

Regarding illegal vehicle operations, the Deputy Director of the Department of Transport emphasized: During Tet, the number of vehicles increases, so there needs to be a mechanism and coordination solution between the authorities and localities to do a good job of propaganda to raise cultural awareness, create healthy competition between types of transport businesses; at the same time, strengthen patrols, inspections and handling of violations against illegal vehicles and illegal stations...