Vinh City: Fines of over 5.7 billion VND for violations of traffic safety corridors

On the afternoon of August 21, Vinh City Party Committee held a meeting to evaluate the results of the 2-year review of the implementation of Plan No. 62 of the Urban Order Steering Committee on the clearance of violations of road, railway and sidewalk traffic safety corridors in Vinh City. Comrade Phan Duc Dong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee chaired the meeting.

After 2 years of implementing Plan No. 62 of the City's Urban Order Steering Committee on clearing violations of road, railway and sidewalk traffic safety corridors in Vinh City, the entire city has launched 17,605 operations to handle violations; recorded and administratively sanctioned over 7,010 cases with a total amount of over 5.7 billion VND collected.

Overview of the meeting. Photo by Vo Huyen

However, the situation of re-encroachment on roads and sidewalks still occurs frequently, especially on main streets and areas around markets, hospitals and schools. The situation of dumping household waste and construction waste haphazardly, at the wrong time and in the wrong place happens frequently, causing loss of urban beauty.

At the meeting, members of the Steering Committee, functional units and wards and communes raised difficulties, problems as well as causes of re-encroachment on sidewalks, roads, and environmental pollution on the streets.

The main reasons are that people's awareness is not high, the responsibility of the steering committee members, the City People's Committee, functional units and wards and communes is not regular, continuous, not closely following the effective maintenance, the handling work is not drastic, management is lax, there is still a situation of pushing and avoiding.

Forces confiscated items encroaching on traffic safety corridors in Vinh city. Photo: Vo Huyen

Concluding the meeting, comrade Phan Duc Dong, Secretary of Vinh City Party Committee, highly appreciated the results achieved in the past time. At the same time, he proposed solutions in the coming time, including attaching the responsibility of heads of units, wards and communes to the work of ensuring order in traffic safety corridors and environmental sanitation. For members of the Steering Committee, the working groups must closely follow and have specific and detailed plans for each region and each locality. Regularly patrol and control, strictly handle violations, and prevent re-encroachment of sidewalks, traffic safety corridors and environmental pollution from occurring in the area.