The traffic can be a nightmare for visitors to Viet Nam for the first time. Believe it or not, there are transport rules but people don't seem really interested in following them. Three or four people on one motor bike is a common sight, particularly with the young and young families
The traffic is worst during the rush hour when everyone is attempting to get to work or get home quickly. Some people ride their motorbikes on the pavement rather than waiting in the a traffic jam. The people walking are just as likely to get hit on the pavement as they are crossing the roads at such times. It's crazy. Road users become very impatient, constantly using their horns when there's obviously nowhere to go, even shouting at others to get out of the way. You have to be quite aggressive or you get nowhere.
Traffic jams in Vietnam’s biggest city are daily getting worse. They not only hinder the city’s development but also roil the lives of its residents. Outwitting the tie-ups has become an obsession of HCM City’s people whenever they leave their home
Facing the fact that city authorities have run out of remedies for ‘traffic jam disease,’ the people of Ho Chi Minh City have no option but to learn how to coexist with this natural calamity
The surface of the narrow streets is further narrowed because of construction works, which the local people call ‘blockhouses.’ The more than 250 projects being implemented on hundreds of roads make traffic jams worse. Traffic jams even at night
Economic losses caused by traffic jams are estimated at 14.3 trillion dong ($841 million) per year, 5.1 percent of the city’s gross domestic produc
Adapting to the unavoidable
Not only is sitting in traffic jams costly in wasted gas and time, it can also kill you. Researchers in Germany have