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 inspect the operating conditions of passenger transport vehicles entering and leaving the airport in order to detect, punish 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 inspect the declaration of transport fares, posting of fares on vehicles and fare collection. General inspection at ticket agents to strictly handle acts 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 routes, speed, driver working time, carrying more passengers than prescribed...).
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 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 restore the road to its original condition. Any unfinished construction work must be temporarily suspended 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 ditches, repair curbs, and repaint faded road centerlines...
Tighten waterways
During the "peak of peaks" 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 is high.
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 thoroughly 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...
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 wharf area.
The authorities will also inspect and supervise the implementation of regulations on fares and the posting of passenger transport fares by inland waterway port owners and inland waterway vehicle owners; and prevent arbitrary increases in fares, speculation, ticket trading, and solicitation of passengers during the Tet holiday.
The Inspectorate of the Department of Transport requested that inland waterway passenger transport business units strictly tidy up the inland waterway port 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 correct 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
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