Nearly 2,000 drawings portraying day-to-day traffic situations from a
child’s perspective were submitted to a children’s art competition run
by the National Committee for Traffic Safety from June 22 to August 30.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a proposal to use
traffic cameras in many streets in the capital city of Hanoi to make
sure car drivers are staying on the right side of the road and
observing all the other rules.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries, sectors and
localities to prepare measures to ensure road safety and tackle traffic
jams during the upcoming holidays for Liberation Day (April 30) and May
Day (May 1).
Vice-chairman of the National Transport Safety Committee Nguyen Hoang
Hiep spoke with Giao thong (Transport) newspaper about Vietnam's efforts
to tighten transport management.
Traffic police will be deployed in greater numbers at congestion
hotspots and pressed into service round-the-clock on key days in order
to ensure order and road safety in and around the capital city during
the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.
Hanoi was able to cut congestion spots in the second half of last year,
said Nguyen Van Khoi, vice chairman of the Traffic Safety Committee, in
an interview with Ha Noi Ngay Nay (Hanoi Today) newspaper.
Johnson &
Johnson, in collaboration with the AIP Foundation, has donated 3,848
helmets to first graders at 32 schools in Dong Nai, Quang Binh and Ha
Tinh provinces under the Helmets for Kids programme.
A Pedestrian Safety Tour will be carried out in primary schools in Ho
Chi Minh City to educate students during the current academic year about
safe walking.
Delegates raised at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on October 22
suggestions to a project on strengthening traffic safety on the southern
region’s highways before it will be submitted for the Government’s
approval.
Hanoi has increased the rate
of children wearing helmets when riding motorbikes from 9.1 percent to
52.9 percent thanks to the “Children also need a helmet” campaign
initiated in 2011.
France’s Michelin, one of the largest tyre manufacturers in the world,
has announced its fourth annual tyre safety campaign to expand its reach
among consumers and promote road safety in Vietnam, according to the
Vietnam Investment Review.
The Ministry of Transport has approved a plan to build nearly 150
roadside rest stops along national highways by 2030 to provide petrol,
food, drink and toilet facilities for bus passengers and motorists.
As many as 1,000 students, volunteers and local people participated
in a “Safe Walking” campaign, launched in Ho Chi Minh City on May
11 in response to the second United Nations Global Road Safety Week.
The National Traffic Safety Committee and the World Health Organisation
(WHO) on May 6 co-launched a National Road Safety Week in response to
the UN’s Global Road Safety Week dedicated to pedestrians.
The northern province of Ha Nam will become the first locality
nationwide to have safe routes to school under a project funded by the
Global Road Safety Partnership (GRSP).
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung held a regular working session in
Hanoi on January 25 with experts to review the country’s socio-economic
performance and seek measures to execute this year’s goals.
The Global Road Safety Partnership will help the Vietnam Red Cross Society ( VRC ) enhance its involvement in the making of traffic safety policy, particularly in perfecting the regulations on compulsory use of helmets for motorbike riders.
The Ministry of Transport on Mar. 29 started the construction of 10 new
flyover bridges for pedestrians and motorbike drivers on National
Highway No 5.