Traffic potholes arouse public concern
VNA
Updated : Fri, April 15, 2011,9:00 PM (GMT+0700)
Updated : Fri, April 15, 2011,9:00 PM (GMT+0700)
Vietnam is in urgent need of both huge investment and effective tools for the enforcement of traffic law in order to reduce the alarming number of traffic accidents, an international workshop was told in Hanoi on Friday.
Ly Huy Tuan, Head of the Strategic and Development Institute under the Ministry of Transport, told more than 250 representatives from all 63 provinces and cities and experts from relevant ministries and agencies that the national traffic safety strategy on roads calls for over VND41 trillion (roughly $1.97 billion) for 77 projects for this decade.
The 2011-15 period alone is in need of over VND34 trillion to be invested in 45 projects, focusing on infrastructure, he said.
Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung pointed out that the strategy will provide researchers and managers with facts on the traffic system and recommendations to improve traffic safety.
All this is aimed at meeting the 2020 target to reduce traffic accidents by 40 percent, said the transport leader.
A representative from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a co-sponsor of the workshop, said Vietnam is facing numerous difficulties in ensuring traffic safety, from the shortage of investment to thin human resources and poor experience and performance.
The JICA representative called on national managerial agencies to work out effective strategies attractive to foreign investments as well as improve their competence and coordination of action.
The workshop also heard other co-sponsors from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report on the global program of action for land traffic safety from 2011 to 2020, which will kick off in New Zealand on May 11.
Vietnam plans to decrease the traffic accident tally from 13 deaths for every 100,000 citizens in 2009 to at most six by 2030.
Ly Huy Tuan, Head of the Strategic and Development Institute under the Ministry of Transport, told more than 250 representatives from all 63 provinces and cities and experts from relevant ministries and agencies that the national traffic safety strategy on roads calls for over VND41 trillion (roughly $1.97 billion) for 77 projects for this decade.
The 2011-15 period alone is in need of over VND34 trillion to be invested in 45 projects, focusing on infrastructure, he said.
Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung pointed out that the strategy will provide researchers and managers with facts on the traffic system and recommendations to improve traffic safety.
All this is aimed at meeting the 2020 target to reduce traffic accidents by 40 percent, said the transport leader.
A representative from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a co-sponsor of the workshop, said Vietnam is facing numerous difficulties in ensuring traffic safety, from the shortage of investment to thin human resources and poor experience and performance.
The JICA representative called on national managerial agencies to work out effective strategies attractive to foreign investments as well as improve their competence and coordination of action.
The workshop also heard other co-sponsors from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report on the global program of action for land traffic safety from 2011 to 2020, which will kick off in New Zealand on May 11.
Vietnam plans to decrease the traffic accident tally from 13 deaths for every 100,000 citizens in 2009 to at most six by 2030.
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