Requiring businesses on Nguyen Tai Street to sign a commitment to ensure environmental and traffic safety

According to people's feedback, recently, many households selling hot pot, grill, and drinking food on the street haveNguyen Tai walking streetRegularly violating regulations on environmental sanitation, urban order, traffic safety, affecting the lives and activities of people in the area, damaging the image of civilized Vinh city as well as the newly operated walking street.

Alleys on Nguyen Tai Street are often illegally occupied by businesses as parking lots, affecting the movement of people in the area. Photo: QA

Talking to reporters, Mr. Hoang Anh Tien - Chairman of Truong Thi Ward People's Committee said: After Nghe An Newspaper reported on this situation, the locality has conducted inspections and reviews of business locations on Nguyen Tai walking street and the issues reported by Nghe An Newspaper are well-founded. Currently, there are 7 hot pot and grill businesses on this street that have not strictly implemented measures to ensure environmental hygiene, traffic safety, and urban aesthetics according to regulations. Truong Thi Ward has a plan to handle this situation.

Truong Thi Ward confiscated items violating traffic safety corridors on Nguyen Tai Street. Photo: QA

Accordingly, on January 31, the ward's functional forces, including the ward police and the urban order team, confiscated all billboards, tables and chairs encroaching on the sidewalk and road, and removed canopies and equipment installed in violation of regulations on the street. Previously, the ward also drew up a record to fine Ngon 18 restaurant on this street for discharging water and waste onto the road, causing environmental pollution.

On February 1, 2023, Truong Thi ward held a working session with 7 business households on Nguyen Tai street and requested that the business households sign a commitment to strictly comply with regulations on environment, traffic, and urban order.

Truong Thi ward authorities confiscated all billboards encroaching on the road and sidewalk. Photo: QA

Specifically, businesses are required to absolutely not dump garbage, animal carcasses, waste, or dirty water onto roads and sidewalks. Build manholes and sumps, regularly dredge mud and garbage; do not discharge oil, grease, or vehicle waste; do not litter or dump wastewater onto roadsides or sidewalks to ensure environmental hygiene. Dispose of garbage on time and in the right place as prescribed...

Do not use sidewalks or roadsides for business, advertising, gathering construction materials, dumping construction waste... affecting traffic safety and order. Be responsible for arranging vehicles to your business premises, parking properly, and be responsible for self-management and cleanliness in front of your agency, unit, or residence.

Do not illegally construct, expand or encroach on the protection corridor of road traffic works; do not install illegal canopies, hang clothes... that spoil the urban beauty. Strictly comply with the Road Traffic Law, ensure urban order and civilization, ensure safety for yourself and others; voluntarily dismantle illegal architectural works...

If business households violate the regulations in the commitment, they must take full responsibility and accept the handling measures of the People's Committee of Truong Thi Ward and the city's functional forces, including measures such as: Confiscation of violating exhibits; immediate demolition of violating constructions; cutting off electricity, cutting off water, and imposing fines according to regulations... In addition, if they repeat the offense many times, the competent authorities will revoke their Business License.

After Nghe An Newspaper reported, the situation of occupying the roadway as a parking lot on Nguyen Tai Street has clearly decreased. Photo: QA

“These are measures to rectify the situation of traffic safety, environmental sanitation, and urban order in Nguyen Tai walking street. In fact, if households do not strictly comply, in addition to the penalties, the ward will report to the city to not allow these households to do business in this area anymore, ensuring that the street is always civilized as well as the living environment for people in the area," emphasized Mr. Hoang Anh Tien - Chairman of Truong Thi Ward People's Committee.