Vinh City will invest heavily in walking streets.

Landscape improvement on walking streets

Vinh City is having a detailed plan to ensure environmental sanitation and urban beauty on walking streets.

Walking streets in Vinh city as planned. Graphics: PV

Accordingly, to ensure the walking street environment is clean and cool, 30 minutes before and after the walking street is in operation, Vinh city will organize water spraying to clean the sidewalks and roads of 4 streets.

The city will seek the province's opinion to invest in renovating the sidewalks on Ho Tung Mau and Nguyen Van Cu streets; at the same time, asphalt paving and upgrading and refurbishing Nguyen Tai street and sidewalks, Nguyen Trung Ngan street and some neighboring streets.

Vinh City will beautify the landscape to be green, clean and beautiful when building a walking street. Photo: Document

Along with infrastructure renovation, the city will plant more trees and flower gardens on the walking streets. According to the orientation, the walking street on Nguyen Van Cu will be a shopping street, Ho Tung Mau street will be a space for cultural activities, with an area for sightseeing, reading and buying books.

Along with Ho Si Duong street, there will be a culinary street specializing in Nghe An eel dishes. It is expected that Nguyen Tai street and the canal will be renovated to become a space for culinary cultural activities.

Nguyen Tai Street (planned to be a food street) is degraded and needs to be renovated. Photo: Quang An

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Chuong, Block 1 Head, Truong Thi Ward, said: In order for Nguyen Tai Street to become a culinary city, Vinh City needs to upgrade and synchronize the roadway and sidewalks of this street because there are currently many erosion and degradation points. In addition, it is necessary to calculate a reasonable garbage collection point, and people cannot dump polluted garbage right at the intersection of Nguyen Tai Street and Nguyen Van Cu Street as in the past.

Graphics: Quang An

Businesses must ensure hygiene after the walking street evenings.

To serve the sanitation needs of pedestrians, the city will re-survey the current status of the restroom system along the four walking streets, paying attention to public restrooms at restaurants and cafes along both sides of the walking streets to guide owners to renovate and expand them for pedestrian use when the number of visitors increases.

The restroom meets the standards of a restaurant on Ho Tung Mau Street, able to meet the needs of tourists. Photo: Quang An

However, according to a survey by reporters, currently most of the restrooms of restaurants, eateries, and cafes on the four walking streets are quite small and narrow, while there is not much land left for expansion, so it will be difficult to renovate, upgrade, and expand the restrooms.

Regarding food safety, the city also directs restaurants, especially food restaurants, when registering to operate services on walking streets to ensure food hygiene and have a plan to commit to ensuring minimum hygiene requirements for themselves and visitors before, during and after operating on walking streets.

On the other hand, the city will direct mobile sales services on walking streets to have plans and instructions for customers on ensuring environmental hygiene; sign contracts with the City Urban Environment Company to arrange and increase human resources in the walking street area to pick up trash and clean up each area; build cultural and civilized behavior towards the environment, do not litter; ensure the walking street is cleaned so that it can still operate normally during the day.

Timely garbage collection on walking streets is important. Photo: Quang An

Regarding environmental sanitation activities, in addition to mobilizing social resources, the city will have a support mechanism for restaurants to reinvest in sidewalks, refer to experiences in large walking streets to arrange a number of mobile public sanitation points according to street distances... After organizing the walking street, business households must collect waste around their area and bring it to the designated collection point for the environmental company to collect and return the site intact the next morning.

Mr. Bui Quang Phuong - Head of Vinh City Department of Culture and Information