"Green lane" allocation of important public investment projects
On March 26, in Hanoi, Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha worked directly and online with the Hanoi People's Committee on the implementation and disbursement of the 2025 public investment plan; the work of ensuring traffic order and safety and controlling air pollution in Hanoi.
At the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Trong Dong said that the Hanoi People's Committee has resolutely directed tasks and solutions to promote public investment disbursement plans. Notably, the City People's Committee has directed traffic flow and shortening the time to handle administrative procedures, especially public investment procedures; "green lane" traffic flow, requiring handling within 24 hours for 10 important projects.
Informing about air quality in Hanoi, Mr. Nguyen Trong Dong said that Hanoi is on the path of economic growth but is carrying consequences for resource use and environmental pollution, especially the air quality is tending to decline widely.
The city has reviewed and developed policies and mechanisms for air environment management; built a database system, operated a monitoring system to manage and control air quality; focused on reducing air pollution from source sources; strengthened inspection, examination, warning, propaganda to raise awareness, international cooperation...
Regarding the work of ensuring traffic order and safety, Mr. Nguyen Trong Dong said that the traffic congestion situation is complicated, especially during holidays and Tet, peak hours on main routes, the belt to the inner city when travel demand increases dramatically and the number of vehicles is overloaded compared to the infrastructure.
Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Trung - Director of the Traffic Police Department (Ministry of Public Security) said that Hanoi City needs to comprehensively assess the organization of traffic and public passenger transportation; have a roadmap to reduce personal vehicles on some key routes and areas; strictly handle common violations such as running red lights, going on sidewalks, going in the wrong direction, not wearing helmets...
Mr. Le Kim Thanh - full-time Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee - suggested that, along with researching and building a traffic safety city model, Hanoi needs to implement a number of urgent solutions: Reducing vehicle traffic volume, population density in the inner city; overcoming traffic conflicts at high-traffic density intersections; speeding up the construction speed of works on the traffic routes in operation; continue to raise awareness of traffic participants;...
Speed up the construction progress of 3 bridges
Concluding the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister assessed that Hanoi has proactively prepared many key projects of the country and locality, thereby striving to complete and exceed the public investment disbursement plan assigned by the Prime Minister, and at the same time, it is necessary to continue to attract other capital sources.
The Deputy Prime Minister also gave specific instructions in negotiating and allocating the state budget for a number of urban railway projects using ODA capital; establishing independent projects for land acquisition and site clearance at the same time as preparing investment procedures for key and urgent projects; plans to speed up the construction progress of 3 bridges (Ngoc Hoi, Tu Lien, Tran Hung Dao); investment methods to build a road connecting Gia Binh airport (Bac Ninh) with the center of Hanoi...
Regarding solutions to overcome air pollution, the Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to coordinate with Hanoi City and localities in the Capital region to develop and submit to the Prime Minister a project to solve air pollution in the Capital region, a specific plan, responsibilities of ministries, branches, localities and accompanying mechanisms and policies.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha assigned the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to coordinate with Hanoi and localities to urgently develop a project to establish a Steering Committee on air pollution resolution for Hanoi in April 2025.
Along with the completion of the National Traffic Safety Committee, the Deputy Prime Minister suggested that the Ministry of Public Security preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Construction and Hanoi City to implement immediate and long-term solutions related to rectifying and ensuring traffic safety and order focusing on a number of reasons: Urban construction planning, vehicle management, traffic regulation...
