Currently in Ho Chi Minh City, if you take a walk around the city. you will easily recognize the serious traffic jam in Vietnam situation. especially during rush hours such as morning and after work. In recent years, traffic congestion tends to increase again due to the following reasons.
Increasing traffic jam in Vietnam HCMC
At the conference on ensuring traffic safety in 2022, the mission orientation for 2023 on February 9 said that in 2022, there were 2,017 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City, killing 635 people and injuring 1,321 people. over the same period in 2021, an increase of 243 cases (up 13.7%), an increase of 159 deaths (up 33.4%), and an increase of 277 injured people (up 26.5%).
However, compared to the same period in 2019 (the time before the Covid-19 epidemic) decreased by 1,404 cases (down 41.0%), 6 deaths (down by 0.9%), decreased 1,088 people injured (down 1,088 people). down 45.2%).
Notably, in 2022, traffic jam in Vietnam HCMC tends to increase again. According to simulation results of the Center for Urban Traffic Management and Operations, the service level of the road network is average at D (relatively stable vehicle flow, difficult to achieve high speed).
Some roads in the Tan Son Nhat airport area and Cat Lai port area have very high service levels (levels E, F) such as Cong Hoa Road, My Thuy intersection, Phu My Bridge, and An Suong intersection…
The gateway routes of Ho Chi Minh City become overloaded during rush hour and on weekends such as National Highway 1, Ho Chi Minh City – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway, Ho Chi Minh City – China Expressway. Wage,…
The city center area generates more congestion in the time frame from 9 am to 10:30 am (which is the time frame at the intersection between the flow of vehicles participating in traffic and the flow of cars transporting goods from different cities). gateway to the city center).
The average vehicle traffic on the number of major routes increased compared to the beginning of 2022, such as Ly Tu Trong Street, Nguyen Xi Street, Dien Bien Phu Street, Ly Thai To Street, Saigon River Tunnel, etc.
The reason for traffic jam in HCMC
The reason is that the number of private means of transport continues to increase. investment and development of transport infrastructure have not kept up with demand; there is no mass public passenger transport. solutions to limit personal transport have not been applied in practice; encroachment on roadways and sidewalks still occurs in many places.
The awareness of traffic participation of a part of the people is not high; The work of sanctioning violations through images has been used but has not been automatically applied, so it has not created a deterrent for traffic participants;…
Remedial solutions to traffic jam in Vietnam HCMC
Regarding remedial solutions, in the coming time, we will focus on two main groups: Focus on implementing the transport infrastructure development project in the period of 2020 – 2030 (priority is to close Ring 2 and expand National Highway 13. , Highway 50, Truong Chinh Street, Nguyen Tat Thanh Street, Thu Thiem 3 Bridge, Nguyen Khoai street bridge, An Phu intersection, My Thuy intersection, Nguyen Duy Trinh Street, the road connecting Tran Quoc Hoan Street – Cong Hoa Street connecting with Terminal T3 of Tan Son Nhat International Airport,…). Prioritize investment in works that both prevent flooding and expand traffic roads to reduce traffic congestion and improve the traffic system as planned.
Along with that, focus on implementing the Project of Strengthening public passenger transport in combination with controlling the use of personal motor vehicles in traffic in Ho Chi Minh City. In particular, soon implement the project of collecting tolls for cars circulating in the inner city area, zoning to control motorbikes…
Focus on developing the public passenger transport network
in 2022, HCMC opened 4 new public passenger transport routes by bus, studied and restructured the bus route network; Invest in 107 new buses; Coordinating the implementation of urban railway and rapid bus projects.
Along with that, update information, location of ports, inland waterway terminals, river-crossing passenger wharves announced activities and proposed locations, investment in building new inland waterways. Completing projects to renovate and build new bus stops and shelters (repair 3 bus stations, 1,412 bus stops, 236 waiting houses).
Piloting the use of public bicycles. (with 480 vehicles/43 stations, as of 30 Nov 2022, 260,856 people registered and made 401,794 trips); continue to pilot the use of automatic payment ticket cards on 23 bus routes;…
The city has also completed a study to collect tolls for cars entering the city center; Emission control zoning combined with the collection of environmental pollution fees; Organize the walking space in the downtown area.
However, the implementation still faces many problems due to the lack of relevant regulations. Such as the system of standards and technical regulations on emission control of motorcycles and mopeds in circulation; periodic inspection of technical safety and environmental protection for motorcycles and mopeds; Roadmap for application of emission standards for motorcycles and mopeds in traffic…
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