Transport companies in Hanoi are hurrying to meet travel demandswhich are expected to increase by up to 20 percent compared with normalimmediately before Tet.
The busiest time of a year isapproaching when people typically return to their hometowns before thenation's biggest holiday.
According to the director of HanoiBus Station Management Company, Nguyen Hoang Trung, the number ofpassengers travelling during the peak days (in the week before theholiday starts on February 10) would reach about 30,000 per day at GiapBat Station and 40,000 per day at My Dinh Station.
The companyhas plans to allocate an additional 450 passenger cars for use at themain stations of My Dinh, Giap Bat and Gia Lam.
The Departmentof Transport of Hanoi has also designated 10 free buses to carryworkers at industrial zones to their hometowns.
The situationin other provinces is similar. Pham Van Co, director of northern LaiChau province's Bus Station, said tickets to Hanoi, Thai Binh andThai Nguyen had sold out for those travelling about a week before Tet.
The Ninh Binh Department of Transport has also confirmed thatno construction projects would receive approval from Feb. 2 to Feb. 17.
In related news, despite a fall in the number of accidents anddeaths this month compared to January 2012, there are mounting concernsthat road traffic incidents are not being cut fast enough, according tothe National Traffic Safety Committee.
In January, the countryrecorded 2,703 traffic violations, a decline of more than 25 percentcompared to the same period last year. The injury number was 2,728, areduction of 34.5 percent and the number of fatalities was 25, the sameas last year.
However, HCM City and central Ninh Thuanprovince – two localities that achieved good results in traffic accidentcontrol in 2012 – have seen traffic accidents and related cases ofdeath rise this month compared to December 2012 and January last year.
Across the country, transport centres of all kinds have beenpreparing for this period and worked to ensure that travelling remainsan easy and efficient experience for passengers during the Lunar NewYear.-VNA