Prime Minister of Vietnam's request regarding ensuring traffic order and safety during National Day holiday on September 2nd

Prime Minister of Vietnam's request regarding ensuring traffic order and safety during National Day holiday on September 2nd (Image from internet)

On August 20, 2024, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam issued Official Telegram 81/CD-TTg regarding ensuring traffic order and safety during the National Day holiday on September 2 and the high-traffic month for students going to school.

Prime Minister of Vietnam's request regarding ensuring traffic order and safety during National Day holiday on September 2nd

This year's National Day holiday on September 2 will last for 4 days, coinciding with the start of the high-traffic month as students across the country begin the new school year. Traffic volume is forecasted to increase significantly, posing risks of traffic accidents and congestion. To effectively serve the travel needs of the people and ensure traffic order and safety during the holiday and the high-traffic month for students going to school, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam requests that ministries and relevant agencies, within their duties and powers, direct and implement the following:

- The Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam directs local police: Strengthen patrol and control activities, strictly handle violations of traffic order and safety with a spirit of respecting the law, taking decisive and persistent action, with no exceptions or safe zones. Focus on handling violations that directly cause traffic accidents, such as alcohol and drug violations, speeding; proactively prevent, stop and strictly handle acts of gathering to disturb public order and illegal racing; resolutely handle and suppress individuals obstructing law enforcement. Increase the force for handling, rational traffic direction, ensuring safe, smooth circulation, especially on roads and areas forecasted to have high traffic volumes during the National Day holiday. Continue to effectively implement Plan 68/KH-BCA-C08 dated February 16, 2024, by the Ministry of Public Security in executing Directive 31/CT-TTg dated December 21, 2023, of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam on "Strengthening traffic order and safety measures for students in the new situation"; cooperate with the Ministry of Education and Training to enhance propaganda and guide students on traffic safety skills; instruct traffic police and local police to increase inspections and enforce traffic order and safety regulations around schools; take legal action against violations of traffic order and safety by high school students, and promptly inform schools about student violations for appropriate training, reminders, and handling.

- The Ministry of Transport directs its divisions and local Departments of Transport and transportation businesses to ensure transportation capacity, service quality, and traffic safety, especially in the transportation of passengers by road, rail, and air during the National Day holiday, serving the travel needs of students entering a new school year; strengthen the management of transport activities from the start of terminals and stations; cooperate with educational authorities to review schools using contract vehicles for student transport, ensuring transport units comply with business regulations and conditions for vehicle use in student pick-up and drop-off; revamp and enhance traffic infrastructure safety conditions, especially on main roads, key transport hubs, tourist routes; diligently identify high-risk landslide areas and issue timely warnings, and promptly address transport infrastructure incidents; quickly rectify newly emerging "black spots" for traffic accidents; review and supplement signaling systems, and strictly implement traffic organization and guidance on sections and projects under construction; prioritize road space for public travel during the holiday period.

- The Ministry of Education and Training cooperates with relevant ministries, central authorities, and local governments to implement "High Traffic Safety Month for Students Going to School - September," directing and guiding schools to intensify education on traffic safety knowledge and skills for students, enhancing guidance for students on traffic rules when riding electric bikes and scooters; instruct educational institutions to collaborate with parent representative councils to urge parents and guardians to teach traffic participation skills, remind and educate their children to comply with traffic rules, and sign commitments to abide by traffic safety laws, not allowing scooters or motorcycles to be driven by underage students or those without appropriate licenses; cooperate with relevant authorities and local governments to ensure traffic order and safety in school areas.

- The Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam directs news agencies and media to increase the airtime and content for propagandizing traffic order and safety during the National Day holiday. Vietnam Television, the Voice of Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency, news agencies, and political organizations should intensify propaganda, dissemination of traffic safety laws, guiding safe traffic participation skills, especially on highways, regularly updating traffic accident, and congestion situations, providing information to assist and guide public travel during the holiday, and highlighting major road, railway, and inland waterway traffic accident risks; persistently advocating the public to adhere to "No alcohol, no driving"; "No phone use while driving"; "Wear a certified helmet when riding motorbikes, scooters, electric bikes"; "Buckle up in cars"; "Observe speed limits." Increase the scrutiny and strict handling of social media violations in posting and providing bad-faith information impacting traffic order and safety. Correct the legal compliance on traffic participation for reporters and collaborators; rigorously deal with interference in the functionaries' violation handling processes.

- The Ministry of Health of Vietnam directs provincial health departments and medical facilities nationwide to reinforce manpower, means, and medical supplies to ensure the highest capacity for treating traffic accident victims.

- People's Committees of centrally-affiliated cities and provinces direct relevant departments and forces to intensify public education and mobilization for legal compliance on traffic order and safety; organize campaigns to urge families to actively remind and mobilize teenagers, especially students, not to ride scooters and motorcycles without meeting age or license requirements and without adequate traffic skills; increase cooperation between functionaries, schools, and families in managing and educating students on traffic order and safety, focusing on exchanging information about student traffic violations between enforcement agencies, schools, and families for coordinated management and traffic safety education for children; proactively organize safe, smooth traffic plans on routes and areas at high risk of traffic accidents and congestion within their jurisdiction; review high-risk landslide areas and increase warnings if necessary on locally managed roads; tightly control student pick-up and drop-off transport services and strictly handle transport businesses violating student transport regulations; reinforce traffic management in school areas; intensify transport oversight from terminals and stations; publicize the traffic order and safety hotline to receive and promptly address public feedback on traffic order and safety during the holiday.

- Ministries, central authorities, and local governments are to set up 24/7 duty schedules and report on traffic order and safety during the 4-day National Day holiday to the National Traffic Safety Committee, including daily quick reports by 2:00 PM and a comprehensive report for the 4 days by 2:30 PM on September 3, 2024, for summation and reporting to the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam.

See detailed content at Official Telegram 81/CD-TTg dated August 20, 2024.

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