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Quick fix for congestion

  • 28-08-2013 7:20am
    #1
    Capri
    Registered Users Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭


    Seen similar in France - quick fix steel overpasses at bad intersections
    Saigon opens 2 steel flyovers to traffic


    Two overpasses opened to traffic in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday as part of the administration's ongoing efforts to relieve congestion at key road intersections.

    The overpasses, one at the Ba Thang Hai – Nguyen Tri Phuong – Thanh Thai – Ly Thai To intersection in District 10 and the other at the Cong Hoa – Hoang Hoa Tham intersection in Tan Binh District, were built in just four months, a month ahead of schedule.

    The two-lane structures, both 9.5 meters wide, allow motorbikes, cars and buses to travel at up to 50 kilometers per hour, but pedestrians, bicycles, self-modified vehicles, and trucks weighing more than 10 tons are banned from using them.

    Le Quyet Thang, director of the city’s Urban Traffic Management Area No. 1, which built them, said at the inauguration ceremony that they would help ease traffic heading downtown and to Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

    The two, which totally cost VND565.4 billion (US$26.7 million), take the number of steel overpasses in HCMC to five.......


Comments

  • #2
    pclive
    Registered Users Posts: 453 ✭✭pclive


    Or just get more people to use public transport/walk/cycle etc


  • #3
    Dravokivich
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    They've pedestrians weighing 10 tons?

    :P


  • #4
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    pclive wrote: »
    Or just get more people to use public transport/walk/cycle etc

    He said quick...

    Oh wait...Sure isnt there absolutely loads of public transport out to Industrial parks where the jobs are in places like Galway, numerous 50+ year old people able for cycling in the pissing rain and zillions able to walk 10+ miles to their job.

    Not everyone who drives the car in does it out of luxury, some need it.


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