A policeman stops a truck for driving within the wrong lane in Thanh Hoa Province. —VNA/VNS Photo Doan Tan HN — Traffic deaths on land, rail and water within the first four several weeks of the year decreased by 30 percent from the same period this past year, the nation's Committee for Traffic Safety introduced yesterday.Nearly 3,700 traffic accidents were reported at that time, using more than 3,100 deaths (or 26 deaths each day) and 2,700
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Feb. 20 instructed capital authorities to continue carrying out measures to ensure traffic safety and order, focusing on building parking areas to meet local demand.
The HCM City Department of Transport has instructed its agencies to quickly implement the plans drawn up to reduce the number of accidents and lengthy traffic jams by 10 percent.
Measures to curb traffic accidents, road congestion in big cities and transport infrastructure projects were highlighted during an online dialogue on Jan. 12 between Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang and citizens at home and abroad.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the transport sector to take synchronous measures to reduce traffic accidents and congestion, especially in major cities.
Tuoitrenews briefs some of salient news published today, December 27, on Vietnamese media:
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has stressed that reducing traffic accidents and traffic jams is the responsibility of every person.
It was announced that 2012 would be observed as "The transport safety year" at a conference organised by the National Transport Safety Committee in the capital city yesterday.
New Transport Minister Dinh La Thang can't set a deadline to eliminate traffic jams in Vietnam's biggest cities but he has promised a year-on-year decrease of 5-10 percent in traffic accidents in his five-year term.
Transport Minister Dinh La Thang told the National Assembly that he will take all possible measures to cut down traffic accidents nationwide.