Car parking

The car that the teacher of Vân Hồ Primary School reverses and kills one student last Thursday.— VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — National Committee for Traffic Safety has ordered the Ministry of Education and Training to direct all schools nationwide to ban car parking in school premises or on pavements near schools. The order is to be enforced during school hours. The move comes in the wake of the death of a primary school student and injury of another when a teacher was reversing her car, with the registration number 26A-054.29, in Vân Hồ Primary School in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La last Thursday. In December 2016, a second grader in Hà Nội’s Nam Trung Yên Primary School was hit by a taxi while playing on the school grounds. The taxi, carrying the principal and vice principal, rammed into the student and fractured his right leg. The committee has, therefore, decided to issue the order to tighten safety for students … [Read more...] about Car parking banned in all school premises

Hà Nội’s Department of Transport has planned to switch four major bus stations in the inner city, including Gia Lâm, Mỹ Đình, GIáp Bát and Nước Ngầm, into car parks and inner-city bus interchanges by 2020.– VNA/VNS Photo Việt Hùng HÀ NỘI – Hà Nội’s Department of Transport has planned to switch four major bus stations in the inner city, including Gia Lâm, Mỹ Đình, GIáp Bát and Nước Ngầm, into car parks and inner-city bus interchanges by 2020. This is part of the department’s draft plan to improve parking lots, bus stations and bus interchanges by 2030 with a view to 2050. Plans have been submitted to the municipal People’s Committee for approval. Under the draft, the four bus stations would still be places to pick up and drop off passengers but they would be gradually transformed into parking lots. Gia Lâm and Giáp Bát bus stations are the first to be completed in 2020 with Mỹ Đình and Nước Ngầm following five years later. The department also said the city would complete … [Read more...] about Hà Nội to switch major bus stations into car parks by 2020

Illegal car parking spot in Mạc Thái Tông Street of Cầu Giấy District. — Photo vietbao.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — There are more and more illegal parking spots for cars and motorbikes in the inner city of Hà Nội, reported the Kinh Tế và Đô Thị (Economy & Urban). The illegal car parking spaces are located on empty land of awaiting construction areas, desserted argicultural land areas and in sidewalks, streets and residential areas. Notably, the illegal parking spots have been blatantly existing despite many fines being dished out. According to urban management experts, one of the main reasons for the problem was weak managament of authorised agencies. A case of car parking space in Mạc Thái Tông Street of Cầu Giấy District was one example. The district’s transport inspection told the paper that since earlier this year, the car parking spot was fined twice but it has been still illegally used. Another spot in Trần Hưng Đạo Street, Hoàn Kiếm District has been … [Read more...] about Management agencies must be taken responsibility of illegal car parking lots

Underground car park projects still on paper The Saigon Times Daily Trong Dong outdoor stage, where HCMC has long planned an underground parking lot. The project has been suspended - PHOTO: LE ANH HCMC - HCMC has yet to construct any underground parking lots, though it has planned to build more than 10 of them in the last 15 years and have approved four so far. Specifically, the HCMC Department of Transport has announced a meeting to look into a complaint by Dong Duong Group, the investor of the underground parking lot project in the Trong Dong outdoor stage area in District 1. Dong Duong Group vice chairwoman Nguyen Thi Bao Quynh said that the project was one of 180 projects that the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment had earlier listed for suspension. According to the department, the project was not included in the city’s annual land use plan as it had lagged behind schedule due to investor’s poor performance or lack of capital. The HCMC … [Read more...] about Underground car park projects still on paper

Bạch Đằng Street in Đà Nẵng is one of 15 now designed for alternate day parking. — VNS Photo Công Thành Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG — The central city of Đà Nẵng has added five streets where parking is only allowed on odd or even dates in the two downtown districts of Hải Châu and Thanh Khê. Deputy director of the city’s Transport Department, Nguyễn Đăng Huy, said these streets were Phan Bội Châu, Xuân Diệu, Dũng Sĩ Thanh Khê, Thanh Khê 6 and Đặng Thai Mai streets. The rule will takes effect on September 1. He said signs had been placed informing drivers of the changes and the department’s inspection team would start issuing fines from October 1. Last year, the city started a pilot project on odd and even day car parking in 10 downtown streets to ease congestion. The city also plans to build a BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) parking garage at the junction of Ông Ích Khiêm-Đống Đa and Trần Cao Vân streets, offering 309 spaces for cars and over 3,000 for … [Read more...] about Central city adds odd and even day parking streets

A parking zone in Lê Lai Street in HCM City’s District 1. Finding a parking space is a serious problem for car drivers in the city.—VNS Photo Lê Anh Vũ Viet Nam News HCM CITY – High investment costs and low parking fees have made investors less interested in building automated car parking lots in HCM City, experts said at a workshop held on Friday. To cope with the problems of increasing automobiles and an overloaded car parking system, since 2006, the Ministry of Science and Technology has instructed Nippon Mechanics and Crane Co, Ltd (NMC) to undertake the project of designing and building elevators or automated parking systems in the country. The system has a lifting device and storage spaces inside to store vehicles efficiently and its capacity is 2-20 times higher than a traditional parking lot if they are built on the same area of land. Due to the lack of car parking spaces, many car drivers park on roadsides or drive around to find a place to park their vehicles, … [Read more...] about Elevator parking in city difficult to implement: experts

Lê Lai Street in front of the New World Hotel is one of three streets in District 1, HCM City, where the My Parking app is starting a trial run from now to the end of this year. — VNS Photo Lê Anh Vũ Viet Nam News HCM CITY – Military-run mobile carrier Viettel on October 21 piloted its My Parking app to allow car owners to find a parking lot and pay parking fees on several streets in downtown HCM City. The pilot programme, which runs from now to the end of the year, was jointly launched by the city’s Department of Transport and Viettel. The “My Parking App,” which is available for both Android and iOS, will allow drivers to find available parking slots, the best routes to get there and make a reservation, charging VNĐ5,000 (22 US cents). The app can collect information about the time a car enters and leaves a parking space to calculate the fee. Drivers can use the app to pay parking fees via SMS, bank transfer or by cash. The three-month pilot programme will cover … [Read more...] about Smart parking app debuts in downtown city

Hà Nội will develop modern car park in downtown. With space limited in downtown Hà Nội, parking spaces are at a premium. — VNA/VNS Photo Thế Duyệt Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — With space limited in downtown Hà Nội, parking spaces are at a premium. So difficult it is to find a place to park cars and motorbikes, it seems any spare piece of land, on sidewalks and even in the yards of State agencies, is snapped up to be used as an illegal lot. In front of an office in Hai Bà Trưng District on Đoàn Trần Nghiệp Street, the motorbike parking lot of the Anh Duy Development Investment Co Ltd charges VNĐ10,000 (US$0.4) to park – despite the price printed on the ticket as only VNĐ5,000, reports Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper. Last month, the capital city expanded the use of the iParking app at 146 lots. The project is part of the ongoing efforts to improve urban traffic management by monitoring the number of vehicles using parking lots and ensuring transparency in collecting fees. … [Read more...] about Illegal parking spots spring up in Hà Nội

Part of the Thống Nhất Park where an underground car park will be built. – Photo vietnamnet.vn HÀ NỘI (VNS) – Hà Nội will not use budget funds, but mobilised social capital to build a three-storey underground parking lot in Thống Nhất Park, an official of the municipal People’s Committee said. The Hà Nội People’s Committee last year approved a project to build a parking lot of more than 10,000sq.m in the park in Lê Duẩn Street, Hai Bà Trưng District, which will accommodate 390 cars. The car park will have an estimated investment capital of VNĐ100 billion (US$4.7 million), deputy head of the committee’s secretariat Lưu Quang Huy said at a press briefing yesterday. He said only trees and flowers would be planted on the roof of the underground building and the local authorities would not permit the construction of any commercial centre on it. The l and for the parking lot has been lying unused since 1997. In 2013 , the … [Read more...] about Hà Nội mobilises social capital for parking lot

Cars angle park in a parking slot on Lý Thường Kiệt in Hà Nội. — VNA/VNS Photo Huy Hùng Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — An automated car parking technology will be piloted on two streets in the capital city in the second quarter of this year. Hà Nội People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung has instructed the city’s Department of Transport to pilot the iParking technology for car parking management on Lý Thường Kiệt and Trần Hưng Đạo Streets. The project is part of efforts to improve urban order by monitoring the number of vehicles using parking lots and preventing the lack of transparency in collecting parking fees, he said at a recent meeting with the city’s Steering Committee on Traffic Safety. Nguyễn Tuấn Đức, head of the department’s urban transport infrastructure division, said earlier last week that the concerned units, including the technology provider, have been informed of the project. “We will try to finish the venue scouting and planning phrase by March 30 so we … [Read more...] about Hà Nội to pilot automated street parking