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With inadequate traffic signs, poor lighting and cracks, the unfinished Trung
Luong – Ho Chi Minh City Expressway is unsafe, heard a Thursday meeting about
the management of this expressway 15 months it was opened to traffic.
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He said cars and buses often parked in the emergency stopping lane for their passengers to take photos, relieve themselves or just take a nap.
In these cases, the traffic police in Tien Giang and Long An provinces where the expressway crosses could not fine these vehicles because there are no signs forbidding such parking.
Pham Minh Tuan, deputy head of the Bureau of Road and Railway Traffic Police, said since this expressway is being contemporarily used and managed as an ordinary road, authorities could only fine vehicles that park in the emergency lane if there was a “no stopping” sign.
He urged the Ministry of Transport to officially inaugurate this expressway soon so that traffic police can discipline drivers who park negligently.
Duong Tuan Minh, chairman of the My Thuan Project Management Unit, said authorities could not be sure when the expressway would be officially open to the public since some of its construction items are yet to be completed.
Long An’s traffic police also said some motorbike drivers still illegally enter the expressway and the lighting system needed to be improved.
Accidents are likely to happen in certain poorly lit sections, and there are also cracks on the expressway’s surface, while some traffic signs were too small for drivers to read, they added.
Nguyen Huu Thien, CEO of the Quang Trung Security Guard Corporation, spoke of some other problems threatening traffic safety on the expressway such as stray dogs and people wanting to cross it.
The My Thuan Project Management Unit and the Bureau of Road and Railway Traffic Police are thus calling for official regulations from the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Transport to better manage the expressway to ensure public safety.
Source: Tuoi tre
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