Hanoi plans to 'park cars by the day, dump trash by the hour'

Hanoi leaders said the city plans to regulate parking on some streets as "even-day cars park on even-numbered side, odd-numbered side on odd-numbered days".

On the morning of August 15, at a meeting with voters in Hoan Kiem district, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said that on August 16, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee will meet to discuss the project to limit personal vehicles and build an intelligent traffic operating system. This includes the construction of static parking lots, limiting personal vehicles in the city center, traffic light systems, etc.

Hanoi plans to regulate that cars can only park on one side of the road per day. In the photo is a car parked on Da Tuong Street on August 15. Photo: Vo Hai.

City leaders said the capital will have five locations for underground parking lots, including August Square; Thong Nhat, Thu Le and Thanh Nhan parks; and Quan Ngua Sports Palace. Hanoi recently hired a Japanese partner to design and plan the underground space at the five parking lots.

Hanoi will also re-plan public parking lots and make them public for people to know and monitor. On some narrow streets such as Tran Quoc Toan and Nguyen Gia Thieu, the city assigned the Department of Transport to develop a plan to only allow parking on one side of the street instead of both sides as before.

“On even days, park on the even-numbered side of the road, and on odd days, park on the odd-numbered side to ensure fairness. This rotating parking method is applied in many countries. Recently, the city piloted parking on even and odd days on Da Tuong Street,” said Mr. Chung.

Hourly garbage collection

According to the Chairman of Hanoi, the city spends about 3,000 billion VND each year on collecting, transporting and treating waste. In the near future, the city will promote mechanization of these tasks to increase productivity and reduce costs.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung said that Hanoi is considering regulating people to throw garbage at the collection point from 5pm to 7pm or from 8pm to 10pm. Through a survey, Hanoi authorities found that in the first time frame, there is a phenomenon of people throwing garbage, then other people come to pick up plastic and nylon, making the garbage collection point unsanitary. Therefore, the city plans to issue a regulation in which people throw garbage once a day, between 8pm and 10pm.

According to Hanoi leaders, the city has completed the design of a trash can model for public places, with covers to ensure urban hygiene and aesthetics. Urban sanitation work will be focused in the direction that each unit is responsible for one or several districts, avoiding the situation where many units perform in one district, leading to shirking of responsibility as has been the case for a long time.

According to VNE