2030 car ban

A police officer direct traffic in HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh Viet Nam News By An Phương HCM CITY – You’ve probably heard of multiple measures to ease traffic congestion in HCM City, but are you aware that the city plans to restrict motorbikes by 2030? As far as I know, HCM City is the third city, besides Hà Nộ i and Đà N ẵng, to come up with a roadmap to limit private vehicles travelling to the city centre and to areas prone to traffic congestion. According to the proposal’s first phase from now until 2020, the city will increase parking fees, restrict parking for motorbikes and impose a toll on vehicles entering the city centre. During peak hours between 7am and 7pm, motorbike travel will be restricted between Tân Bình District’s Tr ư ờ ng Sơn Stree t and District 1’s Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai Street, and between Pasteur Street (Lý Tự Trọng – Điện Biên Phủ section) and Nam Kì Khởi Nghĩa Street (Điện Biên Phủ - Lý Tự Trọng section). The city will also … [Read more...] about Is a motorbike restriction or ban the way to go for HCM City?

Big cities seek to ban motorcycles from central districts The Saigon Times Daily Road users are stuck in a heavy traffic jam in HCMC. Hanoi and HCMC governments look to gradually reduce motorbike traffic, and eventually ban motorbikes from central districts by 2030. – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Hanoi and HCMC governments are speeding up plans to limit motorbike traffic in inner-city areas and phase them out in the downtown area of the two cities to ease traffic jams. Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper cited a representative from the center for scientific research and training, under the Hanoi Department of Transport, as saying that the department would work out solutions in 2019 to curb the number of motorcycles entering inner-city areas. Under the center’s proposal, before terminating motorbike traffic, the Hanoi government will restrict driving zones for motorbike operation. Selected areas are required to have appropriate infrastructure and meet standards and requirements for … [Read more...] about Big cities seek to ban motorcycles from central districts

Second thought for a proposed motorcycle ban The Saigon Times Daily The proposal to ban motorcycles in downtown HCMC is revisited, time and again, as authorities seek to fight traffic congestion, and as usual, the tentative scheme has drawn fire from experts and the general public alike. In the scheme to develop public transport and restrict individual vehicles, authorities target to gradually limit motorcycles in downtown HCMC from 2025, which will amount to an outright ban by 2030. Under the scheme presented by the HCMC Department of Transport and the Transport Development and Strategy Institute (TDSI) under the transport ministry, it is reported that relevant agencies have conducted a survey among 35,000 passengers across the city, and the majority approve of the ban. Up to 62.5% of the respondents approve of the restrictive measures, comprising of over 40% giving full support and 22% giving partial support on the condition that public transport be developed to an agreeable … [Read more...] about Second thought for a proposed motorcycle ban

This round of disaster relief will likely do more harm than good for the Korean economy. As the economy has started recovering, such a colossal cash handout is simply not needed. Thanks to the rapid rebound of the global economy as a result of vaccinations in places like the U.S. and U.K., the Bank of Korea has raised its projection for our growth this year to 4 percent from 3 percent. That should be a warning against the arbitrary unleashing of liquidity into the market. It is better for the government to tighten money supply to help control inflation and reduce its debt. The national debt has already reached a dangerous level. It swelled to a whopping 1,000 trillion won from 660 trillion won in just four years after the launch of the Moon administration in 2017. More alarming is a government engrossed with making up for its red ink by issuing national bonds worth 100 trillion won a year since 2020. As a result, the debt-to-GDP ratio will hover around 60 percent in 2024. Korea will … [Read more...] about More harm than good

A family of endangered red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathryx nemaeus) at the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve in Đà Nẵng. National parks and nature reserves have been urged to develop eco-tourism in the central and central highlands regions. — Photo courtesy GreenViet Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG  — "Việt Nam’s nature reserves and national parks are aiming to boost eco-tourism to facilitate both conservation and economic growth, but their efforts have been hampered by a lack of planning, human resources and funds," said Lê Văn Lanh of the National Association for Nature Reserves in Việt Nam. Lanh, speaking at a conference in Đà Nẵng on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in the central and central highlands regions last weekend, said just 61 out of the country’s 167 nature reserves had developed eco-tourism services in line with sustainable development goals. Slow planning and poor long-term strategies by State agencies and local administrations had left sites of rich … [Read more...] about National parks focus on eco-tourism development

Serious traffic congestion is common in Hà Nội during peak hours. - VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Traffic congestion has cost Hà Nội between US$1 and 1.2 billion per year and has made air pollution five times worse, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy under the Ministry of Transport said. Speaking at a seminar on reducing traffic congestion and air pollution in Hà Nội on Wednesday, director of the institute’s Urban and Rural Traffic Centre Phạm Hoài Chung said in addition to the economic loss, the city’s air pollution index has risen five times higher than allowed levels. Traffic congestion has caused the loss of more than one million working hours per year, he said. According to Chung, the congestion is caused by the excessive population density of the inner city, and by the gap between the growth rate of vehicles and work on traffic infrastructure. Hà Nội has about 5.5 million motorbikes and nearly 500,000 cars. From 2010 to 2017, the number … [Read more...] about Annual cost of Hà Nội traffic reaches $1.2 billion