During rush hours in the morning and afternoon, many key roads in Da Nang such as Bach Dang, Dien Bien Phu, Le Dai Hanh, Truong Chinh... are often crowded with vehicles.
People and vehicles are crowded, queuing in long lines, moving slowly. The reason is not only due to the rapid increase in the number of vehicles but also because sidewalks and roadways are occupied for trading, spontaneous parking of motorbikes and cars, causing traffic space to narrow. When the space for pedestrians on the sidewalk is no longer empty, the roadway naturally becomes an impromptu parking lot.
Mr. Hoang Minh Hoa, a resident of Hai Chau ward, Da Nang city, expressed: "Currently, overloading is not only happening in the central areas but the whole city is under great pressure due to the large number of vehicles and mechanical population flocking in. During rush hour, traffic participants continuously face congestion.
Representatives of the Da Nang City Department of Construction admitted that the current local traffic congestion situation is an inevitable consequence of the urbanization process taking place too quickly, exceeding the forecasts of previous plans. The number of personal vehicles has grown too strongly, while the land fund for road infrastructure in the central area is limited and cannot be expanded in time.
Besides the pressure from the imbalance between vehicles and infrastructure, the management and enforcement of road and sidewalk order in some areas has not been thoroughly implemented in the past time. The serious shortage of large-scale centralized parking lots is also a direct factor increasing traffic pressure on streets, when people's parking needs are real but there is no legal space to meet them.
To gradually remove this bottleneck, the city's functional sector has applied many temporary solutions such as reorganizing traffic flow, installing no-parking signs on even and odd days, or setting strict no-parking hours in areas where conflicts frequently occur.
Mr. Vo Tan Ha - Deputy Director of Da Nang City Department of Construction - said: "The construction industry has implemented parking ban signs on even and odd days and parking bans on hours in many traffic conflict areas. However, the fundamental solution now is to focus on solving the problem of static parking lot planning. We are urgently reviewing and adjusting the planning of public land locations to prioritize static traffic infrastructure, and at the same time build specific investment regulations to meet public parking spaces in the coming time.
