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.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.
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