The Hoa Binh provincial Department of Transport has been promoting relevant parties’ implementation of plans on passenger and goods transportation and traffic safety before, during, and after the New Year, Lunar New Year, and spring festivals of 2024.
The number of coach trips starting from the Hoa Binh central coach station in 2023 increases 59.3% from the previous year.
Transportation activities have recovered after the COVID-19 pandemic. The central coach station currently accommodates 82 coaches running on 53 fixed routes, comprising 70 running on 45 routes connecting Hoa Binh with other localities and 12 running on eight routes within the province.
The number of coach trips starting from the Hoa Binh central coach station in 2023 stood at 98,938, up 59.3% from the previous yea. Meanwhile, transported passengers numbered 812,796, up 89.6%.
Nguyen Trung Dung, head of the Hoa Binh central coach station, said the number of passenger throughput at the station on the Lunar New Year 2024 occasion is forecast to increase but not much, concentrating from the 22nd to 29th days of the final lunar month (February 1 - 8).
As directed by the Transport Department, the station has built a detailed plan to meet travel demand. In particular, it has been stepping up communications; asking businesses and relevant units to ready backup vehicles in case of a sudden surge in the passenger number; coordinating with authorised forces to increase examination of vehicles, drivers, and the adherence to ticket price publication, coach schedules, and regulations on passenger transportation; and ensure strict control of security and order, he noted.
On December 7, the Transport Department issued Plan No. 3795/KH-SGTVT on passenger and goods transportation and traffic safety before, during, and after the New Year, Lunar New Year, and spring festivals of 2024.
Accordingly, it ordered related units to increase vehicles to cater for travel demand, stringently deal with overcharging for tickets, seriously follow coach routes and timetables, comply with speed regulations, prevent passenger overloading and the use of alcohol or stimulants while driving, and ban the transportation of smuggled goods, goods with unclear origin, and prohibited items.
The department demanded inland waterway transportation companies seriously comply with the Law on Inland Waterways Traffic and related legal documents.
It asked relevant units to conduct frequent examination and monitoring; prepare forces to ensure smooth traffic, prevent congestion, and guarantee traffic safety; and set up hotlines and publicise phone numbers on mass media outlets and at boat and coach stations to receive people’s feedback on the traffic safety situation to take timely response measures. The units were also told to boost patrol and examination to ensure order at coach stations and inland waterways terminals while seriously handling violations of traffic rules before, during, and after the New Year, Lunar New Year, and spring festive season of 2024.
Hoa Binh City has been making strong changes in its infrastructure system and urban development, creating a vitality, a new look and taking on the leading position in the provincial socio-economic development.
Speaking at a meeting with businesses, investors, and cooperatives on the occasion of the lunar new year, Chairman of the provincial People's Committee Bui Van Khanh affirmed that with the motto of the administration accompanying businesses, Hoa Binh always determines that the success of businesses is also that of the province; and their difficulties and problems are the responsibility of the Party Committees and authorities at all levels. That motto has created a landmark in the development process of the province as well as the local business community.
The Government Office has just issued Notice No. 179/TB-VPCP, dated April 23, 2024, on the conclusions of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at his meeting with the Standing Board of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee on April 13.
Cao Phong district has witnessed signs of economic improvement over the recent past thanks to efforts by local authorities to promote agricultural, industrial, and handicraft development.
On April 26th, the Steering Committee for completing the standards to establish Luong Son town of the province held a conference to evaluate the progress of implementing the standards to establish Luong Son town. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Steering Committee chaired the conference.
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954 - 2024), Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and other officials of the province and Lac Son district on April 25 visited and presented gifts to local soldiers and pioneering youths who directly engaged in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign.
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