Prime Minister directs focus on controlling alcohol concentration violations during Tet

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 248/CD-TTg of the Prime Minister on ensuring traffic order and safety during the 2026 New Year.

The dispatch stated that in order to serve the travel needs of the people, maintain smooth transportation activities, ensure traffic order and safety (TTATGT), minimize traffic accidents and congestion during the 2026 New Year, the Prime Minister requested:

Ministries and agencies, according to their functions and tasks, are assigned to increase means of transport to serve the travel needs of the people, especially public passenger transport to connect and support passengers to travel conveniently at railway stations, airports, bus stations, and train terminals.

Overcome and limit the phenomenon of price suppression, taking advantage of price increases that are not in accordance with regulations to better serve the travel needs of people, prevent traffic accidents during Tet.

The health sector and localities ensure forces, means, medical supplies, and medical emergency capacity, especially at key traffic routes and areas with high traffic volume to minimize human losses due to traffic accidents.

The Public Security sector has increased forces and vehicles to patrol, control, and strictly handle violations of traffic safety and order; focus on controlling violations of alcohol concentration, speed, load, and safety conditions for vehicles and drivers; pay attention to patrolling and controlling to ensure traffic safety and order on newly put into use routes.

The Construction Department directs the provincial and municipal Departments of Construction to coordinate with the functional forces of the Public Security Department and local authorities to maintain inspection of transport business activities, especially contract vehicles and fixed-line passenger vehicles.

Direct transport business units and bus stations to resolutely not put unsafe vehicles into transport business, focus on preventing traffic accidents right from the departure point and be responsible for complicated transportation or traffic accidents caused by transportation activities.

Strengthen information and propaganda work, focusing on increasing the time and content of propaganda on traffic safety.

Regularly propagate to the transport business drivers and people about implementing the safety traffic rules of "drinking alcohol - not driving"; "Do not use a phone while driving"; "Connecting a seat belt when sitting in a car", " complying with speed regulations"...; propagate to support the implementation of tasks of functional forces performing the task of ensuring traffic safety.

Regularly and promptly update the situation of traffic accidents, traffic congestion, high risks of road and cross-road traffic accidents via rail, inland waterways, main traffic routes, key traffic hubs, areas where events and festivals are held.

Ministries, branches and localities maintain hotline numbers to ensure traffic safety and order to receive and promptly handle people's complaints during the holiday; assign competent focal points to organize duty under the 24/7 regime.

Report on the situation of ensuring traffic safety during the 2026 New Year holiday to the National Traffic Safety Committee before 2:30 p.m. on January 4, 2026 for synthesis and reporting to the Prime Minister.

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