National Highway 5 through Hai Duong province is a vital traffic axis connecting the Northern key economic region, and is also an area with many large industrial parks and clusters. Every day, tens of thousands of workers and vehicles travel on this route, causing traffic pressure to always be high.
However, in reality, this section still has many infrastructure bottlenecks and inadequacies in traffic organization. The road surface is degraded, locally flooded after heavy rain, lack of overpasses and pedestrian access roads, causing many potential safety risks for workers' travel.
At some intersections, the signal system is not reasonable, leading to congestion and frequent traffic conflicts during rush hour.
More worryingly, the situation of encroaching on the roadside to stop vehicles, unload goods or trade goods at industrial park gates is quite common, causing disorder and obstructing traffic participants' visibility. These acts not only reduce the efficiency of the transportation system but also directly threaten the safety of workers' lives.
Faced with this situation, more and more businesses operating on National Highway 5 are clearly aware of their role and responsibility in ensuring traffic safety for workers.
At the conference to initial evaluate the implementation of Plan 796 of the Hai Duong Provincial People's Committee on building National Highway 5 into a traffic safety route on May 27, many large enterprises such as Brother, Tinh Loi Garment, Best Pacific, Ford Vietnam... actively contributed their opinions.
Enterprises not only make recommendations on infrastructure improvement, such as building overpasses, expanding service roads, upgrading traffic lights, but also proactively propose specific solutions such as installing warning signs, diverting vehicles to and from factories and disseminating traffic laws to Hai Duong workers.
Businesses are also concerned about prominent issues: degraded road surfaces, localized flooding, encroachment on safety corridors, stopping and parking, unloading illegal goods and street vending at industrial park gates. The opinions emphasized the role of enterprises in accompanying localities in ensuring traffic safety for workers and laborers along National Highway 5.
The construction of National Highway 5 into a safe route cannot only rely on state resources, but requires substantial cooperation from businesses - units that directly use infrastructure and have a workforce attached to this route every day.
