Traffic ban

Traffic ban: Hà Nội will ban vehicles from Cầu Gỗ and Hàng Gai streets on Friday nights and at weekends.— Photo vneconomy.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The capital city’s transport authority has announced alterations to traffic adjustment in central area of Hoàn Kiếm around Đông Kinh-Nghĩa Thục Square. All vehicles will be prevented from using some sections of the two central streets of Hàng Gai and Cầu Gỗ on certain hours on Fridays and at weekends, according to Hà Nội Department of Transport. The ban to start tomorrow, will restrict vehicles from circulating from 7pm to midnight on the two streets from Lương Văn Can to Đinh Liệt Street. The department has ordered the city’s traffiic management board to install signs in the banned streets. It also asked the city’s transport inspectorate to co-operate with road and railway traffic police as well as the Hoàn Kiếm District to guide vehicles moving towards the city centre. Advice about bus routes affected will be passed on … [Read more...] about Vehicle ban on parts of Hoàn Kiếm

Cars will be banned from a 500m-long section of Hà Nội’s Kim Mã Street as construction on an underground metro station begins in December. — VNA/VNS Photo Minh Sơn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Cars will be banned from a 500m-long section of Hà Nội’s Kim Mã Street as construction on an underground metro station begins in December. The Hà Nội Urban Railway Management Board (HURMB) said on Friday that it would set up construction barriers along Kim Mã Street from the Nguyễn Chí Thanh flyover to Alley 415, near Pizza Hut, early next month. The whole one-way lane in the direction of Nguyễn Thái Học Street towards Kim Mã will be blocked for traffic, forcing vehicles of both ways onto the opposite lane. The HURMB said it would demolish two metres of pavement in the opposite lane to make way for traffic. Cars, however, are not allowed into the road section due to the limited traffic space. The nearby Ngọc Khánh parking area will also become a temporary warehouse for … [Read more...] about Cars banned on Kim Mã to build metro station

Workers set up a car ban pole on Giảng Võ Street, Hà Nội. - Photo zing.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội has decided to ban Uber and Grab cars on 13 streets during rush hours in an effort to tackle increasing traffic jams. The city’s Department of Transport has, so far, installed signs prohibiting taxis and nine-seater commercial cars and smaller ones, including those of popular transportation networks Uber and Grab, on nine out of 13 streets. The ban is due to go into effect from Thursday. Accordingly, commercial cars will not be allowed to run between 6 and 9am and from 4.30 to 7.30pm. The streets on which the cars are banned are Hoàng Hoa Thám, Mai Xuân Thưởng, Giảng Võ and Láng Hạ, as well as Lê Văn Lương, Trường Chinh, Khâm Thiên and Hàng Bài, in addition to Phủ Doãn, Xuân Thủy, Cầu Giấy, Giải Phóng and the Chương Dương Bridge on the lane from Long Biên District to the city centre. Department director Vũ Văn Viện said the ban was aimed at reducing the … [Read more...] about Uber, Grab cars banned on 13 streets

Traffic police penalise violators in Hà Nội. Police will launch a campaign to ensure safe travel during Tết holiday. – VNA/VNS Photo Doãn Tấn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – Traffic police nation-wide will begin a two-month-long campaign to ensure traffic safety and social order for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday. This was revealed by the Department of Traffic Police under the Ministry of Public Security on Friday. The campaign will be on from December 16 to February 15. Traffic police will mobilise their force to implement this campaign, focusing on National Highway 1A from northern Lạng Sơn Province to southernmost Cà Mau Province. Specific locations where traffic accidents occur often, will also be heavily patrolled. Traffic police will crack down on drunk driving and order tests to determine alcohol levels in the driver’s blood. Those who violate traffic laws, such as speeding, driving in the wrong lane, carrying more people than allowed … [Read more...] about Police ensure traffic safety for Tết

HCM City plans several measures to ease traffic at congestion-prone sites. – VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HCM CITY – Traffic jams have eased somewhat in HCM City but not been eliminated, a top transport official has said. Bùi Xuân Cường, director of the Department of Transport, told a meeting on June 19 that one of the reasons they still occur in some places is the plethora of traffic infrastructure works in the downtown area. Lê Hồng Việt, deputy head of the department’s inspectorate, said inspections of the works have been stepped up, and warned contractors to speed up work so that temporary fences around construction sites could be removed soon. The inspectorate has also eliminated the problem of taxis parking on banned streets, he said. The city has 37 spots prone to traffic jams, according to the department. Of them, 25 have seen much improvement and two have improved somewhat, but the rest remain in a bad state, it said. In District 2, traffic jams occur … [Read more...] about City’s efforts to improve traffic at hot spots pay off — somewhat

An overturned light truck on the approach to Bình Triệu Bridge in HCM City’s Thủ Đức District. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh Viet Nam News HCM CITY — The chairman of HCM City People’s Committee Nguyễn Thành Phong instructed the municipal Department of Transport and relevant authorities to make studies for banning all light trucks during the day time in an effort to ease traffic congestion. “This is a necessary solution because traffic congestion is happening throughout the day, not only during peak hours, especially at the city’s enterences, major roads, Tân Sơn Nhất Airport and Cát Lái Port,”  Phong said at a Friday meeting to review traffic and safety for the first six months of this year. “Relevant authorities must continue to properly guide traffic routes, install more traffic lights, and arrange traffic police to ease traffic congestion,” he added. Phong also asked authorities to speed up projects to collect car parking fees, to set up walking streets in downtown and … [Read more...] about HCMC to ban light trucks in daytime

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

A person is under treatment for liquor poisoning in the Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội. — Photo news.zing.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Advertising beer could soon be a thing of the past after the Ministry of Health proposed calling time on commercials. The plans were revealed yesterday at a conference held to come up with ideas to complete the draft law in an attempt to curb alcohol problems. Trần Thị Trang, deputy director of the Department of Legal Affairs under the MOH, said the draft law proposed a ban on beer and liquor promotion to customers, using beer and liquor as prizes in competitions, advertising beer on social networks and supplying beer and liquor free of charge. Trang said the demand for beer and liquor increased quickly, especially beer. On average, each Vietnamese person consumes 6.6 litres of pure alcohol per year whereas the number was 3.8 litres five years ago. It is forecast that by 2025, each Vietnamese person will drink seven litres of pure alcohol … [Read more...] about Ministry of Health proposes ban on beer advertisement

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?

A police officer directs traffic on a street in Hà Nội. Road directions have been rearranged in Hoàn Kiếm District to limit traffic jams. — Photo baodautu.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Hà Nội Department of Transport has rearranged traffic on several roads around central Hoàn Kiếm District to reduce traffic jams in the area. As per the department’s plan, automobiles will run one way on Hàng Khoai Street and will be banned from turning left on Nguyễn Thiếp Street. Cars will also run one way on Nguyễn Thiện Thuật Street. Automobiles wanting to go from Hàng Khoai Street to Trần Nhật Duật Street will have to travel towards Hàng Khoai-Nguyễn Thiện Thuật-Cao Thắng-Trần Nhật Duật. The plan has been put in place since last Saturday. The Hoàn Kiếm District Police, the Hà Nội Department of Transport and local authorities will collaborate to instruct residents and drivers from now until this Saturday. Strict punishments will be given to violators from next week. More signs will … [Read more...] about Hà Nội rearranges traffic to reduce jams