At the launching ceremony of Traffic Safety Year 2025, on the morning of January 17, Mr. Nguyen Trong Dong - Vice Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee said that in 2025, Hanoi strives to reduce traffic accidents by 5% or more compared to 2024 on all 3 criteria (number of cases, number of deaths, number of injuries) and reduce traffic congestion...
Accordingly, Hanoi City requires relevant units to urgently deploy tasks to ensure traffic order and safety to serve people's travel needs during the Lunar New Year holiday and spring festival.
Strengthen patrols and controls, strictly handle violations of traffic safety and order on roads, railways, and inland waterways, especially those that are direct causes of accidents and traffic jams; prevent illegal racing, and resolutely suppress all acts of resisting law enforcement officers.
Require relevant departments, branches and units to effectively implement solutions to reduce traffic congestion; review and promptly overcome unreasonable traffic organization, handle points where road traffic accidents often occur; have plans to respond and divert traffic, not to let traffic congestion last long when incidents and traffic accidents occur, especially before and right after the Lunar New Year holiday on main routes, belt routes and gateways to the inner city...
Request the Department of Transport, Hanoi Transport Corporation and transport enterprises operating in the city to have plans to ensure transport capacity, quality and safety for passenger and cargo transport activities, especially passenger transport services by road; not to let passengers not be able to return home for Tet due to lack of vehicles; strictly handle the situation of "illegal buses", "illegal stations" and illegal fare increases.
