December 30, 2011
Workers lay asphalt on a section of the National Way 1A in the central province of Quang Ngai Tuesday, although the street is wet with stagnant water. Last week newly-appointed Transport Minister Dinh La Thang made the headlines with bold statements about dealing with traffic jams in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi – the [...]
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December 23, 2011
Workers lay asphalt on a section of the National Way 1A in the central province of Quang Ngai Tuesday, although the street is wet with stagnant water. Last week newly-appointed Transport Minister Dinh La Thang made the headlines with bold statements about dealing with traffic jams in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi – the [...]
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December 1, 2011
From next year, the Vietnamese government will start re-setting order for traffic, which is currently in an emergency situation with the traffic accident death toll higher than the fatalities from wars in other countries, deputy prime minister said. Nguyen Xuan Phuc made the statement at the national conference on traffic safety Monday, VnExpress reported. According to the [...]
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October 23, 2011
A traffic jam in Hanoi. The capital city now has nearly 400,000 cars and some four million motorbikes. Cars with five to seven seats are the main instigators of traffic jams and accidents in Vietnam, according to Khuat Viet Hung, head of the Department of Transport Planning and Management at the University of Transport, who [...]
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September 23, 2011
HCMC is considering collecting car tolls on several downtown streets The transport department of Ho Chi Minh City has presented a plan to collect car toll fees in the downtown districts 1 and 3 to reduce traffic jams and boost public transport, the Tuoi Tre reported Sunday.  Toll stations will be put up on 15 [...]
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September 8, 2011
Vietnam is planning to restrict the use of motorbikes on some of the major streets in its major cities during fixed time periods. The government has asked the transport ministry to make a plan to do this in all big cities as it struggles to deal with the country’s worsening traffic situation. In a recent [...]
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February 6, 2011
Buses lined up on National Way 1A in the central province of Khanh Hoa stuck in a traffic jam lasting almost a whole day Sunday. Heavy traffic jams lasting many hours were reported on the trans-Vietnam National Way 1A Sunday, as people flocked home to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). Starting at 3a.m., a traffic jam [...]
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November 12, 2010
Motorbikers get stuck in a traffic jam on Thi Nghe Brigde, Ho Chi Minh City Traffic jams seem to be an endless saga in Ho Chi Minh City, a saga that has inflicted great losses over the years on the southern metropolis. In 2008, experts said traffic jams caused the city losses of VND14 trillion [...]
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January 23, 2010
In a bid to beat its traffic jams, Hanoi has called on its residents and scientists for their views. Suggestions should be sent to the Hanoi Department of Transportation at http://www.sogtvt.hanoi.gov.vn.According to the Hanoi Transportation Department, the capital city has 18 crossroads which suffer from frequent traffic jams. It plans to upgrade and re-organize traffic [...]
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January 15, 2010
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on Tuesday agreed that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City should be allowed to raise fines for traffic violations after they complained about worsening traffic problems. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City topped the list of traffic jams lasting more than one hour each in 2009, with Hanoi recording [...]
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