Parachute cars at the toad dock have complicated developments
On January 30, Mr. Khuat Viet Hung, Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, inspected passenger transport activities and the work of ensuring traffic safety during the Lunar New Year in Hanoi and affirmed: “Umbrella vehicles , “toad wharf” in Hanoi is still complicated.
In fact, The situation of contract cars and limousines operating chaotically has been widely reported in the press but there has been no complete solution. Partly because people have changed their transportation methods, they rarely go to the station to buy tickets, while the situation of contract vehicles picking up passengers at home is very developed.
Therefore, the management agency has a solution to tighten the licensing of these vehicles and arrange passenger transfer stations in each area to create convenience for people.
Mr. Khuat Viet Hung, Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, inspected the Nuoc Ngam bus station. Photo: Ta Hai
To deal with the situation of parked vehicles, Mr. Hung requested the Hanoi Traffic Safety Committee to advise the Chairman of the People’s Committee and the City Police Director to assign responsibility to the district police chief to preside over the complete handling of the parked vehicles. locality.
In order to manage vehicles for transport business, Mr. Hung said that the Vietnam Road Administration has built contract vehicle management software according to the provisions of Decree 10, centralized data management of trip monitoring devices. , cameras on transport business vehicles will certainly manage, strictly handle, and prevent the activities of parachute vehicles, toadstools, and disguised contract vehicles.
Vietnam Road Administration has been approved by the Ministry of Transport for a project to enhance the application of information technology and digital transformation in the road sector for the period 2023 – 2025, with an orientation to 2030. The budget will also be allocated to implemented from 2024. In the coming time, the construction of the above management software will be deployed soon.
Before implementing the management software, Mr. Hung said: “It is necessary to use human strength to drastically handle parachute vehicles and toadstools. Doing it as drastically as handling alcohol concentration violations will definitely have results.” fruit”.
Passenger buses operate at Nuoc Ngam bus station. Photo: The Anh
Traffic surveillance cameras are still “thin
Meanwhile, Ms. Phan Thi Thu Hien, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Road Department, affirmed: “With parachute vehicles and toadstools, currently, if we only rely on the traffic control force and traffic police, we will not be able to check and handle them all. “.
“While the traffic surveillance camera system is still “thin”, the responsibility of local authorities is still the most important and needs to be expressed more drastically,” Mr. Hien suggested.
Ms. Hien requested the Hanoi Traffic Safety Committee to review and make statistics of locations with many parachute vehicles, toad stations, and disguised contract vehicles, thereby recommending the installation of additional surveillance cameras and assigning responsibility to local authorities. methods to handle and release these positions.
On the side of Hanoi City, Mr. Dao Duy Phong, Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Transport emphasized that the unit has been deploying teams to inspect the passenger transportation of contract vehicles through data from GSHT equipment.
This is one of the solutions in the project to handle vehicles at toad stations in the area, supported by transport businesses and bus stations. At the same time, it also strengthens the direction of inspection of transport business activities of enterprises, revoking badges for violating transport vehicles.
Previously, the Hanoi Department of Transport requested bus transport units to arrange vehicles to ensure the quantity and quality of service on the route, and have a plan to deploy additional buses to meet increased travel demand. at bus stations, train stations, and airports.
In addition, the Department also requires transport units to declare and post prices and absolutely not take advantage of the increased number of passengers during the traditional Tet holiday to increase prices or force prices.
The Department of Transport also requested the Department of Transport Inspectorate to strengthen patrols, control, and strictly handle violations of traffic order and safety, especially violations in the field of passenger transport; Mobilizing forces to work overtime at night at hot spots in bus station areas, airports and key traffic hubs…
