The last day of the week-long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday from January 20-26 saw people return to HCM City in droves, with all local bus and train stations filled with crowds, and Tan Son Nhat International Airport serving 913 flights and 144,871 passengers, a record daily number since the beginning of the holiday.
HCM City (VNA) – The last day of the week-long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday from January 20-26 saw people return to HCM City in droves, with all local bus and train stations filled with crowds, and Tan Son Nhat International Airport serving 913 flights and 144,871 passengers, a record daily number since the beginning of the holiday.
Tet is the biggest traditional festival of Vietnamese in a year, and most people return to their hometown for family reunion on the occasion, creating an exodus of traffic out of big cities at the beginning of the holiday and vice versa at the end of the holiday.
A representative of Mien Dongbus station, the largest bus station of the city, said that on January 26, thestation received about 40,000 passengers, while the Mien Tay bus station sawmore than 3,000 passengers.
Passengers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Photo: VNA)
Despite the high number of travellers, thanksto effective measures rolled out by local authorities, congestions did not happen in the airport as well as bus and train stations.
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Trong Son, ViceDirector of the Road-Railway Traffic Police Office under the Department ofPublic Security of HCM City said that the traffic police force of the city willcontinue to mobilise 100% of personnel and coordinate with relevant forcesto ensure smooth and safe traffic movement.
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People flock to HCM City after Tet (Photo: VNA) 
Passengers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Photo: VNA) 
