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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 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?

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

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

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

Motorbike Ban: A Spontaneous Remedy By Khuong Quang Dong In this picture taken in HCMC, it is hard to say that motorbikes are the main cause of traffic jams – PHOTO: THANH HOA Recent news about the proposed ban on motorbikes in Vietnam’s two metropolises may prompt observers to reckon that the people in charge are apparently lacking a long-term, reasonable plan The media have reported extensively about the discussion on the plan to forbid motorbikes in the inner-city districts of Hanoi and HCMC. The ban is obviously an attempt to tackle the traffic congestion problem. It was by chance that several articles in different newspapers reported on the same topic: the residents of Trung Hoa-Nhan Chinh, an urban area in Cau Giay District, Hanoi, strongly opposed the erection of more high-rises in their living quarters, specifically the changes to the plan approved in 1998 which specifies a construction density of 34.88% including eight buildings with 6.7-7.5 floors. … [Read more...] about Motorbike Ban: A Spontaneous Remedy

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

VEC must lift ban on vehicle circulation on expressways by February 28 The Saigon Times Daily A section of HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway - PHOTO: LE ANH HCMC - The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam has asked Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) to abolish its practice of banning vehicles from traveling on its expressways by February 28 as it does not have the mandate to issue such rules, the local media reported. VEC must eliminate unreasonable regulations in its Decision 13/2019, issued on January 10, such as temporarily banning drivers who park their vehicles or leave litter on expressways, for one to seven days, and banning those passing through tollgates without paying toll fees or hindering the work of the tollgates’ staff, for 30-60 days. On February 11, the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam asked VEC to report on the fact that its subsidiary, Vietnam Expressway Services Engineering JSC (VECE), had announced a permanent ban on two cars with number … [Read more...] about VEC must lift ban on vehicle circulation on expressways by February 28

Trucks will be banned from certain APEC routes in central Đà Nẵng City in November. – VNA/VNS Photo Văn Sơn Viet Nam News ĐÀ NẴNG — Trucks, tipper lorries and lorries with trailers will not be allowed on certain roads in central Đà Nẵng City for the duration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation ( APEC ) meetings in November. According to the latest traffic plan for the APEC meetings issued by the municipal People’s Committee on Saturday, tipper lorries will be banned from all routes in the city from November 3-12. The APEC Economic Leaders’ Week is scheduled on November 6-11 in the city. However, they will be allowed to use certain roads on the outskirts of the city, including routes linking Hải Vân tunnel to Túy Loan, some sections of the National Highway 14B, National Highway 1 and the Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Expressway. Also under the plan, trucks, lorries with trailers, coaches with over 16 seats, sanitary vehicles, garbage trucks and trucks … [Read more...] about Trucks banned on APEC routes in Đà Nẵng

HCM CITY (VNS) — The Government has approved the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment’s temporary ban on mining at many places in the central province of Ninh Thuận to protect historical relics, enable infrastructure work and for other reasons. The province People’s Committee earlier reviewed mining done at various places and identified some for the ban. In all, the ban takes effect at 1,236 places, and the official reasons cited include protection of historical and cultural relics and sightseeing destinations; protected land and forests; geological studies; land earmarked for military; buffer land for infrastructure works like high voltage grids, traffic works, irrigation, dykes; land for urban development, industrial parks and industrial clusters; and land for water storage and emission and wastewater treatment plants. They cover an area of 224,513 hectares. The ministry has made sure the laws allow the ban. — VNS … [Read more...] about PM approves mineral exploitation ban