Prime Minister requests to ensure traffic safety during the April 30 - May 1 holidays

The Prime Minister requested to ensure traffic order and safety during the April 30 - May 1 holidays. Illustrative photo. Source: vtc.vn.

The Prime Minister has just issued Official Dispatch No. 402/CD-TTg on serving people's travel needs and ensuring traffic order and safety during the April 30 and May 1, 2019 holidays. The contents of the Official Dispatch are as follows:

To better serve people's travel needs and ensure traffic order and safety during the 5-day holiday of April 30 and May 1 (from April 27 to May 1, 2019), the Prime Minister requests ministries and agencies: Public Security, Transport, Education and Training, Information and Communications, Culture, Sports and Tourism, National Traffic Safety Committee, political and social organizations, Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam Television, Voice of Vietnam; Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, within the scope of their tasks and powers, to direct and well implement the following contents:

Strengthen the implementation of solutions to improve capacity, ensure safety and quality of passenger transport services, meet the increased transport demand during the holidays, especially on routes connecting Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, tourist destinations, entertainment areas and major traffic hubs; require transport units to comply with traffic rules, prevent accidents on steep mountain passes and railway crossings; strictly handle violations, especially violations of speed, carrying more people than prescribed, encroaching on waterway traffic safety corridors, and illegally increasing ticket prices; strengthen security and order at airports, train stations, bus stations and major tourist destinations and festivals. Strengthen the exploitation and use of data collected from vehicle tracking devices to inspect and handle violations.

Check, review and supplement the traffic sign system, especially at intersections, road sections with high slopes, narrow curves, and limited visibility; strengthen the organization force, ensure traffic, reasonable traffic flow, guide vehicles to move safely and smoothly, ensure security and order at toll stations, especially BOT toll stations on National Highway 1; take timely remedial measures when incidents and accidents occur, especially on key traffic routes, areas with high risk of congestion, tourist areas, and entertainment areas; continue to mobilize local mass organizations to participate in vigilance to ensure traffic safety at intersections between roads and railways; intersections between secondary roads and main roads; strengthen measures to ensure traffic safety for passenger watercraft.

The Ministry of Public Security directed the police of units and localities to increase forces to ensure traffic order and safety during the April 30 and May 1, 2019 holidays. In particular, strengthen patrols, control, and strictly handle violations of road, railway, and waterway traffic order and safety; pay attention to violations that are direct causes of traffic accidents and traffic jams, such as: speeding, violating alcohol and drug concentrations, driving in the wrong lane, going in the wrong direction, avoiding and overtaking in violation of regulations; prevent illegal racing, gatherings that disturb public order; violations when crossing railways; carrying more than the safe waterline; unregistered, uninspected vehicles, not ensuring technical safety; not equipped with life-saving and rescue equipment; no driving license, diploma, or professional certificate; promptly prevent and strictly handle vehicles carrying more than the prescribed number of people.

Coordinate with the transport sector to have plans to organize, regulate and divert traffic; be ready with forces to promptly clear up traffic accidents and congestion; especially on main routes leading to and from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, national highways, key traffic hubs, tourist sites, entertainment areas, bus stations, wharves, train stations, BOT toll stations, construction sites that often experience congestion, ensuring absolute safety, security and order, and smooth traffic.

Strengthen propaganda and dissemination of traffic safety laws and safe traffic participation skills to raise people's awareness, do not drive over the speed limit; do not drive after drinking alcohol, beer, or using drugs; do not use cell phones while driving; stop and observe safety when crossing railway crossings and when going from side roads to main roads; wear standard helmets when riding motorbikes, scooters, and electric bicycles; wear life jackets according to regulations when using water vehicles; measures to limit accidents with motorbikes, scooters, boat sinking accidents, and railway crossing accidents; encourage people to use public transport.

Announce the hotline number for transportation and traffic safety on mass media to receive feedback from agencies, units and people on traffic safety during the holidays; at the same time, direct and coordinate with relevant authorities to promptly resolve and overcome traffic incidents.

Ministries, branches and localities must report on traffic safety and order during the 5-day holiday of April 30 and May 1 to the National Traffic Safety Committee before 3:00 p.m. on May 1, 2019 for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister.