The city of Hanoi in Vietnam has traced plans to ban all motorcycles by 2025 in an effort to solve the growing traffic and pollution problem and promote public transport.
At the moment, there are around 4.9 million motorcycles and scooters on the roads of the city, which was estimated to have a population of 7.7 million in 2015. There were 8,000-20,000 new motorcycles registered in Hanoi each month in 2015, with officials estimating up to seven million bikes on the roads by 2020.
The increase in privately owned cars and motorcycles has also led to an increase in pollution levels in the city and Hanoi is regularly ranked by the Real Time Air Quality Index as "unhealthy." Surprisingly, there is no mention of a plan of banning cars from the city's roads. The city currently operates 1000 buses, with 27 million passenger rides a month, but plans are in place to improve the public transport system with the creation of six new metro lines, three Bus Rapid Transit lines and 18 new bridges all within the next 14 years.
Let’s see how this plays out and if objection will be taken by the motorcyclists against the plan not banning cars.
Source - MCN
