In the days leading up to Lunar New Year, the number of people and vehicles on all routes has increased dramatically. At some key routes and intersections in Thanh Hoa City, traffic congestion has occurred during rush hours.
Through the review of Thanh Hoa City Police, currently on the inner city roads of this city there are 30 points where traffic jams frequently occur.
To ensure traffic order and safety, serving people to travel conveniently and safely, in recent days, Thanh Hoa City Police, especially the Traffic Police, Order Police and Police of wards and communes have been working hard on traffic routes to regulate, guide and ensure traffic order and safety.
Thanh Hoa City Police have proactively surveyed and advised the City Party Committee, People's Committee and Traffic Safety Committee to increase the green light time, allowing all vehicles to turn right at intersections, and redraw lane markings and install hard dividers at locations where conflicts and traffic jams often occur.
Develop and deploy plans to regularly assign forces to set up checkpoints, guide, and divide traffic flows and routes to prevent traffic congestion; arrange and organize flower markets and ornamental plant sales points appropriately so that people can travel and buy and sell conveniently and safely.
Thanh Hoa City Police have mobilized maximum forces and means to synchronously and drastically deploy tasks and solutions, both promoting propaganda, education, and dissemination of traffic safety laws, and increasing patrols, control, and strict handling of violations of traffic safety laws.
Major Nguyen Van Tan - Deputy Captain of the Traffic Police, Order and Mobility Team of Thanh Hoa City Police said: Currently, in the city, there are many key routes and areas where traffic jams often occur such as: Tran Phu Street, Hac Thanh, Le Loi Avenue, Phan Chu Trinh, Nguyen Trai, Le Quy Don, Han Thuyen, Post Office Intersection, Truong Thi and areas of schools, supermarkets, shopping centers...
To strengthen solutions to ensure traffic safety and prevent prolonged traffic congestion before, during and after Tet, Thanh Hoa City Police have advised the Chairman of the People's Committee and the City Traffic Safety Committee to install a system of prohibition signs on some central routes, traffic signs at some intersections with complicated traffic safety regulations to avoid conflicts and traffic congestion during rush hours. At the same time, organize traffic flow, route division and ban passenger transport vehicles, ban large trucks of 5 tons or more from entering the city center, especially during rush hours...
Through patrol work, from December 15, 2024 to now, the Traffic Police and Public Order of Thanh Hoa City Police have detected and handled 658 cases of traffic violations, fined over 3.1 billion VND to the State budget.
In the coming days, when people living, working, studying and working in other places return to their hometowns to celebrate Tet, the need for travel and shopping of people will increase, Thanh Hoa City Police will continue to organize and strengthen forces and means to manage, monitor, inspect and strictly handle violations of regulations on traffic safety and public order so that people can feel secure to shop safely for Tet.
