Strengthening traffic order and safety during the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival 2025

Traffic police of the provincial Public Security set up a checkpoint to check and handle alcohol concentration violations on National Highway 53, Cau Ngang district. Photo: HO GIANG

On December 12, 2024, the Prime Minister issued Official Dispatch No. 132/CD-TTg directing ministries, branches and localities to improve the effectiveness of ensuring traffic order and safety. During the Lunar New Year and Spring Festival 2025, it is forecasted that traffic volume will continue to increase, creating great pressure on ensuring traffic order and safety, with the potential risk of traffic congestion and traffic accidents.

To ensure traffic order and safety to serve the people celebrating the Lunar New Year and the Spring Festival 2025, the Prime Minister requested ministries, agencies and localities to continue to promote the implementation of Official Dispatch No. 132/CD-TTg; at the same time, focus on the following contents:

Have a plan to meet the increased travel demand, effectively respond to common violations of traffic order and safety during holidays and Tet to ensure safety for traffic participants and best serve the travel needs of the people; prevent and stop traffic jams and traffic accidents.

Strengthening medical staff, equipment and supplies to ensure the highest capacity in medical examination and treatment, especially emergency care and treatment of traffic accident victims, minimizing human losses.

Media agencies increase the duration and content of propaganda on traffic order and safety during the Lunar New Year and the 2025 Spring Festival; focus on propaganda and dissemination of traffic safety laws; provide guidance on safe traffic participation skills, especially on highways; information to support people's travel during the Tet holiday; transport service plans; lessons learned from traffic accidents during the holidays in previous years; persistently propagate people to follow safe traffic rules "If you drink alcohol, beer - do not drive"; do not use phones while driving; wear standard helmets when riding motorbikes, scooters, electric bicycles; fasten seat belts when sitting in cars, comply with speed regulations; propagate to support the implementation of tasks of functional forces on duty to ensure traffic order and safety; Commend information on good people, good deeds and good traffic culture; regularly update information on traffic accidents, traffic jams, high risks of traffic accidents on roads, railway crossings, inland waterways, main traffic routes, key traffic hubs, areas where events and festivals are held.

The plans of the People's Committees of provinces and cities must be specific, have a detailed list of tasks, assign responsible agencies and allocate resources for implementation. During the implementation process, there must be supervision, urging, summarizing and quantitatively evaluating the effectiveness with specific indicators.

Assign competent focal points to organize 24/7 duty, report on the situation of ensuring order and traffic safety during the 9 days of the Lunar New Year holiday, from January 25, 2025 to February 2, 2025 (ie December 26, Giap Thin year to January 5, At Ty year) to the National Traffic Safety Committee (in which the quick report is sent before 2:00 p.m. every day; the summary report of the 9 days of the Lunar New Year holiday is sent before 2:00 p.m. on February 2, 2025).

The National Traffic Safety Committee shall monitor and urge the implementation of this Official Dispatch, synthesize and report to the Prime Minister the implementation results before 3:00 p.m. on February 2, 2025.

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