Continue to allow Vinh city to renovate sidewalks for parking

Vinh City explains why sidewalk construction was "whistled"

(Baonghean.vn) - On September 17, 2018, Vinh city issued Official Letter No. 230/BC-UBND to the Department of Construction and the People's Committee of Nghe An province to explain the lowering of sidewalks to make car parking lots.

Comrade Huynh Thanh Dien, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the meeting. Photo: LT

Vinh City then sent a document to the Provincial People's Committee and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee explaining the urgency of the project as well as requesting and hoping that the Provincial People's Committee would create conditions for the city to continue implementing the project to prevent traffic congestion as well as ensure the beautification of Vinh city to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Vinh city and the 230th anniversary of Phoenix Trung Do Vinh.

On the afternoon of September 20, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting between the sectors and the Departments of Construction and Transport to listen to opinions and discuss solutions. The leaders of Vinh City had comrade Vo Viet Thanh, member of the Standing Committee, Secretary of the Vinh City Party Committee co-chaired.

Vinh City is implementing excavation of unfinished sidewalks for parking. Photo: Hoang Hao

After listening to the report and opinions of the Department of Construction of Vinh city, a representative of the Department of Transport commented: "We need to change our way of thinking, decentralize more strongly, other countries do the same and should let the city be autonomous in implementing it."

Concluding the meeting, comrade Huynh Thanh Dien highly appreciated Vinh city's efforts to solve traffic congestion in recent times such as building turns at intersections, restricting trucks from entering the city, moving bus stations to the suburbs... however, there are no parking spaces in front of public places and crowded offices.

Now the city is piloting sidewalk excavation to reduce traffic congestion, and is preparing to serve the 230th anniversary of Phoenix Central City and 10 years of being a first-class urban area. We request that all sectors support the city to continue implementing the project.

Comrade Huynh Thanh Dien also noted that the city needs to learn from experience in implementing the process in accordance with the law, ensuring detailed design, adding signs, strict management, efficiency, and savings. The parking bay on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street must be supplemented and edited, learning from experiences in places that have been done to make it more beautiful. In the future, the city will study to build some more parking bays but ensure sidewalks for pedestrians and ensure aesthetics worthy of a class 1 urban area.

The project to renovate some sidewalks on Le Mao, Ho Tung Mau, Le Hong Phong, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai streets into parking lots is implemented by the investor, Vinh City People's Committee. The total investment for the construction of the project is 13,719,777,000 VND. The source of capital is Vinh City Budget.