Peak traffic safety during Tet

Inspector Pham Van Duong checks the operating conditions of passenger vehicles at Chu Lai airport. Photo: CT

Road control

As the New Year's Eve approaches between the year of the Dragon 2024 and the year of the Snake 2025, the Quang Nam Department of Transport Inspectorate has assigned additional forces to be present at Chu Lai Airport to check the operating conditions of passenger transport vehicles entering and leaving the airport in order to detect, penalize and prevent the situation of disguised vehicles and vehicles that do not ensure safety conditions from participating in passenger transport. The inspection force also increased inspections at bus stations, passenger transport units and traffic hubs.

According to Mr. Truong Van Son - Chief Inspector of the Department of Transport, the unit was assigned to coordinate with the Department of Transport Management, vehicles and drivers to check the declaration of transport fares, posting fares on vehicles and collecting fares. General inspection at ticket agents to strictly handle the act of increasing fares against regulations. Applying technology, inspectors use data extracted from journey monitoring devices, cameras installed on KDVT cars to detect, prevent and handle violations (regarding data transmission, vehicle journey, speed, working time of drivers, carrying more people than prescribed...).

Checking taxis picking up passengers at Chu Lai airport on January 27, 2025 (ie December 28, the year of the Dragon). Photo: CT

Previously, the Department of Transport Inspectorate conducted a general inspection of DT routes; DH routes; urban roads; National Highways 14D, 14B, 14E, 24C, 40B, 14H; Ho Chi Minh Road and National Highway 1 through Quang Nam for acts of encroachment, illegal use of roads, sidewalks and road traffic safety corridors, occupying sidewalks and roads for holding markets, displaying goods, placing signs and billboards as places for business, and gathering construction materials.

“Through road inspection and examination, we request that the unit that has completed the construction work in operation must clean up materials, tools, signs, barriers, and return the road to its original condition. Any unfinished construction work must be temporarily stopped at least 3 days before the Tet holiday, and must fully implement measures to ensure the safety of people's travel,” Mr. Truong Van Son shared.

Also through road inspection and examination, the authorities discovered and reported damage to traffic infrastructure and locations causing traffic safety problems so that the Department of Transport could issue a document requesting the management contractor and road maintenance unit to urgently repair damaged signs, markers, soft guardrails, patch potholes, clear longitudinal ditch systems, repair roadside curbs, and repaint faded road centerlines...

Tighten waterways

Inspector Thai Minh Hoang checks the conditions of inland waterway passenger transport vehicles at Phu Thuan wharf (Dai Loc district) - Duy Tan (Duy Xuyen district). Photo: CT

During the "peak of the peak" of the Tet transportation campaign, officers, civil servants and employees of the Department of Transport Inspectorate were assigned to continue promoting propaganda work at inland waterway ports and river passenger ports where passenger travel demand increased.

Inspector Thai Minh Hoang, in charge of the Northern Quang Nam region, said that the professional team has inspected all the ports in Dai Loc, Duy Xuyen, Que Son, and Dien Ban in recent days. The authorities have instructed and required ship drivers and vehicle owners to carry the correct tonnage and strictly follow the regulations on safety and conditions for waterway transport business.

At cross-river passenger wharves, special passenger wharves, inland waterway vehicles serving tourism and festivals, the Department of Transport Inspectorate focuses on checking compliance with regulations on epidemic prevention, ensuring life-saving equipment, carrying the correct number of people, and preventing fires and explosions on vehicles.

According to Mr. Truong Van Son, the unit's leaders have instructed the working groups to resolutely suspend the operation of illegal ferry terminals, passenger vehicles that do not meet safety standards, violate regulations on registration and inspection, are not equipped with adequate life-saving equipment, and vehicle operators do not have appropriate licenses or professional certificates...

Checking passenger vehicles at Tam Hiep - Dau Go wharf (Dai Loc district). Photo: CT

The Department of Transport Inspectorate also urged the People's Committees of communes with cross-river passenger wharves to increase their responsibility in ensuring traffic safety and order at the wharves. The unit coordinates with functional forces to ensure traffic safety at inland waterway wharves; has plans to arrange and regulate vehicles to pick up and drop off passengers reasonably to avoid congestion or collisions of vehicles in the wharves area.

The authorities will also inspect and monitor compliance with regulations on fares and the posting of passenger fares by inland waterway port owners and inland waterway vehicle owners; and prevent arbitrary increases in fares, speculation, ticket trading, and soliciting of passengers during the Tet holiday.

The Department of Transport Inspectorate requested that inland waterway passenger transport business units strictly tidy up the inland waterway terminal area; take measures to prevent ticket trading that causes social disorder; and at the same time have preferential policies and support for passengers who are disabled and the elderly when participating in traffic. Propaganda and discipline the working style and ethics of crew members and vehicle drivers to strictly comply with the provisions of the law; instruct passengers on the use of life-saving equipment; carry the correct number of people allowed according to regulations.

Source: https://baoquangnam.vn/thanh-tra-so-gtvt-quang-nam-cao-diem-bao-dam-an-toan-giao-thong-tet-3148321.html