Vietnam · Hanoi to prohibit riding motorcycles to the city area

We are considering banning motorcycles by 2030 in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. It is attracting attention whether the sight of the city of Vietnam which is one of Asia's leading bike heaven lined up in Thailand will change completely.

Hanoi plan to ban motorbikes by 2030 to combat pollution - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40498052

The city of Hanoi is a motorbike heaven enough to estimate the number of motorcycles per square kilometer to be 2,500, air pollution caused by motorcycle exhaust gas is a serious urban problem.

The Hanoi City Council had plans to make half of the city's population use public transportation by 2013, but at this time the proportion of people using public transportation remains at 12% The former measures completely failed. Nogo Tray, resident in Hanoi, responded to BBC's interview, "Although the city is very busy, there are few public transportation facilities, there are no subways in Vietnam, only in June 2017 the second floor It was obvious that the plan ended in failure in the situation that the built bus started to operate on some routes. "

According to NGO GreenID's report, in Hanoi City in 2016, the day when emission of PM 2.5 which is a harmful pollutant to the human body is judged to be "excessive" is 282 days, the Hanoi municipal authorities , I recognize that it can not be overlooked.


In order to solve serious air pollution problems and traffic jams, the Hanoi City Council asked the People's Council member of the People's Council of Japan on July 4, 2017 "Prohibit the entry of motorcycles into Hanoi City by 2030" We approved with a large number of votes by 95 out of 96 people. By doing this, in the future, we are going to gradually reduce the number of motorcycles in the city.

However, due to inadequacies of public transportation and lack of space to park the car, in Hanoi City, people who use motorcycles as transport means occupy the majority of citizens, so opposing opinion against the ordinance is deeply rooted . Mr. Ha Mi, a journalist at BBC Vietnam, said, "When the Vietnamese government obliged to wear a helmet, no one had heard, eventually the obligation was withdrawn, I can not imagine Hanoi without a motorcycle." The road to the official enforcement of ordinance seems to be dangerous.