Vietnamese motorcycles always tend to treat red light as proposals, which is slower than stop. In the rush hour, they brought the same indifference to the following rules: Or leave the sidewalk. Or do not drive against the traffic flow.
Although some attractive people, many wheel ballet dancing around pedestrians. However, Vietnam's road lethal rate has long been the best in Asia for a long time. And after cracking down drunk driving, the national leaders are now chasing everything else.
According to new laws, traffic fines have risen 10 times and the largest tickets are over $ 1,500. The average quotes exceed one month of salary for many people and are too much to change their actions. The intersection is calm and more crowded due to caution. Due to the failure of the green lighting, the scary driver led to walking on a motorcycle across the street that the police might see.
“It's safer, it's better,” he said this week, pruning a tree outside the Buddhist tower on a busy road on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. 。 “But it's cruel for the poor.”
The goal is to make Vietnam a more civilized (Vanmin in Vietnam). This is a word that the government often develops for public order campaigns, which are often considered the northern stars of this low -income country, Singapore, South Korea, or Japan's wealth and order.
Like China, all three countries have become richer, giving priority to traffic safety and protecting the idea that ordering roads reflect the achievement of modernization.
However, Vietnam has its own specific history and trajectory. Economic growth has been raised by millions of people without encouraging comfort from poverty. In most cities, people, motorcycles, cars and trucks are increasing. And communism bureaucracy is struggling to catch up.
The street is a Vietnamese Coliseum. Especially in cities, it is a forum that has been expanded for a long time between the elite, which seeks harmony, and a strategy for income that demands harmony between government control and personal freedom.
In 1989, the state was legalized on the street with the approval that the state of more than 1 million people fired, and that the Soviet -style central plan did not bring economic growth. The small business revolution continued, and small plastic chairs and sidewalks were sold.
Houses, workplaces, and roads have been fused rapidly. The Street Front Living Room has become a store. Motorcycles and food carts are crowded with sidewalks. The retrofitting pedestrian walked in traffic.
The government sometimes tried to bring order to certain areas. More than 10 years ago, Yale anthropologists looked at such an effort to “converge between disciplinary goals of the late socialist Vietnamese state and the interests of the emerging property class.”
However, Vietnam's melancholy urban culture resisted to be kept, like tropical vegetation that became wild on the edge of the city.
In 2007, when the government decided to force a motorcycle driver to wear a helmet, the submission and the simulated compliance were mixed. Some people tied the kitchen pot to their heads. Many are still wearing headgear -like headgears, but they are not safer.
Many of the offenders do not pay money to regain them, when the police have raised a fine a few years ago and began to make drunk driving as a target for a few years ago and confiscated the vehicle. I left my bike behind.
Now, another rebound is brewing. Million dollars have been poured (Ho Chi Minh City reported that tickets have increased by 35 % in the first two weeks of the law). Many people are looking for additional cameras, which provide more than safety than safety greed, and to provide cameras and snitch rewards.
“Police just want to make as much money as possible,” said Dinh Ngoc Quang, a motorcycle driver, waiting for customers at the intersection of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. “The higher fines were the most intense in pockets of low -income people like me.”
When the traffic light turned red, a motorcycle and a car rush -usually stopped a certain car.
“It's good to have a traffic order, but how about the poor people like us who need to work on the street every day?” He added.
Some drivers call new laws as compressive, authoritative, and exploitation. Many people are dissatisfied with the fines that are too high, takes twice as long as their normal trips, to eat taxis, truck drivers, or those who are dependent on efficient delivery. I am. The fact that ambulances are clogged for hours, and the fact that people are rich (or punched) to report the offenders of red light are spreading to social media.
Attention has confused the flow in all accounts.
In major cities, motorcycles that are playing with old rules stop early, even if the rear end drivers, which are frequently paying attention, are frequent and green. The truck driver paused as much as possible to avoid fine by working straight for hours. The intersection is now increasingly large because the driver used to move like a river around the stone by raising the intersection and moving like a river around the stone.
“We are always stuck everywhere,” said Huin Van Mai, a truck driver who regularly travels between Ho Chi Minh City and Vantau Port about 60 miles away.
“It's a lot of stress,” he added and took a break near the logistics hub, which has a transport container tower behind him. “There are so many changes to the law.”
Still, as many people have acknowledged, this effort has logic. Since the strengthening execution began, beer sales have decreased by 25 %, and drunk driving has decreased.
Vietnam's national leader -There are many people who have started career with national security, so we have just been a few months of power, but we are eager to go further. It seems that safety and the pursuit of government monitoring are consistent. Hanoi announced last week to add 40,000 cameras to about 20,000 people already introduced throughout the capital.
However, in such young countries, the average age is around 32 years old, and the government seems to be aware that the rebellion is inevitable, compared to nearly 40 people in the United States and China.
As for driving, preaching patience is one reaction. As a columnist in a newspaper, I have recently written as follows. “The time of traffic congestion is like a large -scale rehearsal in a society where each person must adjust, accept restrictions, and interact with others.”
In some places, concessions to practicalism are also being made. After the 10 -day complaint, HO CHI Minh City dispatched the team to install the signal, and the motorcycle turned to the right at 50 intersections. In Hanoi, local governments are also working to adjust some signals.
A fine -tuned balance between chaos and order has begun to appear. Some motorcycles are still increasing the speed of traffic, but on the sidewalks, they stop far along the country's growing cars and trucks.
After feeling success, some commentators are wondering what else will be changed with a large fine. Perhaps a large garbage ticket helps to reduce garbage nationwide?
“It takes time and effort to promote a civilized style,” said Nguyen NguC Dien, a former vice president of the Vietnamese National University in Ho Chi Minh City and the Former Vice President of the Law University. “These new traffic regulations are part of that effort.”
