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  Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in...

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  Re: It’s the traffic, stupid! (May 6-12 issue No.84) This is an interesting and burning issue in Vietnam. I moved to this country from San Jose, California. I have lived here now for two years. One thing I learned is that that traffic rules and traffic culture do not exist in Vietnam. I...

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  Reckless driving and frequent tire blow outs have plagued Vietnam’s most advanced roadway The bus involved in the accident on June 13 that killed 8 people and injured 10 others on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway Investigations into a recent highway accident, which...

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  Authorities determined to halt sloppy road construction send a strong message to road builders The road construction site along National Road 51 connecting Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Dong Nai provinces. Police in Dong Nai Province’s Long Thanh District have arrested two officials...

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It takes some getting to, but a bamboo-lined dirt road makes it worthwhile A long bridge across the Ma River is just one of the picturesque features on the trip to the Suoi Muong bamboo path If it’s all about the journey and not the destination, there is a “journey to a journey” involving quite a few ups and...

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At least two people, one man and one woman, died last week in HCM City because of holes in the road. VnnNews – At least two people, one man and one woman, died last week in HCM City because of holes in the road. The culvert where the man died on October 10. A man who was riding a bicycle in downpour fell on a culvert...

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Totaling 28 kilometers, Hanoi’s Thang Long Avenue is being upgraded to six lanes. Let’s take a look at the road. VnnNews – Totaling 28 kilometers, Hanoi’s Thang Long Avenue is being upgraded to six lanes. Let’s take a look at the road.   Vietnam’s longest avenue to be named Thang Long   Thang...

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VnnNews - The East-West avenue is the most beautiful road in HCM City but it is not really beautiful at all.   Eye catching HCM City New East-West Avenue project director named The age for mass transit   Many big pieces of concrete on the pavement.< />     Gravelly soil overflows to the...

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HCM City planned to build elevated highways to curb gridlock in the city’s centre in the early years of the 21st century. For the past ten years, however, all residents can do is wait. Still a plan This was the golden idea offered by the city’s Transportation Development Plan to 2020, designed in 2005 and approved in 2007....

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HCM City planned to build overpasses to curb gridlock in the city’s centre in the early years of the 21st century. For the past ten years, however, all residents can do is wait.  Still a plan This was the golden idea offered by the city’s Transportation Development Plan to 2020, designed in 2005 and approved in 2007. Under...

Tags: For The Road, Hcm City, Ndash Nguyen, The Government, The Road