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Another 100 trees will fall in Saigon as city wants to clear traffic near airport

By Vi Vu August 12, 2017 | 05:57 pm GMT+7



Saws will be brought out this month as the city wants to increase road capacity for traffic to and from its international airport.

Ho Chi Minh City’s transport department has announced a plan to chop down more trees, this time to give way to heavy traffic near Tan Son Nhat Airport.

The plan is to fell 102 trees on Hoang Minh Giam and Hoang Hoa Tham streets stretching two to three kilometers from the international airport, local media reported.

Saws will be brought out onto the streets between August and December. Another 21 trees there will be moved to a garden in the city.

Authorities said the move will increase road capacity near the airport, where traffic jams currently last for hours every day, despite recent opening of several overpasses.

Trees are frequent "victims" of urban development in Vietnam.

In Ho Chi Minh City, the tree chopping spree has been going on non-stop for the past three years since it started work on its first metro line.

Hundreds have been felled so far. The city is set to move and cut down 300 trees along Ton Duc Thang, which has one of the most beautiful canopies in the city, to make way for a metro station and a new bridge.

[Hurricane88]

Walking zones send land prices skyrocketing in Saigon, Hanoi

By Vu Le August 13, 2017 | 12:32 pm GMT+7

Areas around these zones are now some of the most expensive in the country’s two biggest cities.

Plans to pedestrianize backpacker streets and nearby areas in Saigon and Hanoi have sent land prices through the roof to around $22,000 per square meter, on average.

For a month now, Saigon has banned vehicles from Bui Vien Street in its backpacker precinct in District 1 on weekend nights, and is finishing work to turn Bui Vien into an official pedestrian street.

And landlords are not missing out on the chance to cash in on the plan



Compared to seven months ago, the cost of land on streets around Bui Vien has increased 34.7 percent on average, and up to 130 percent in some areas, according to the latest report by HCMC-based real estate evaluation firm Gachvang.

On De Tham Street, the price per square meter has jumped from VND194.8 million ($8,500) in January to VND450.5 million this month. Vietnam's average annual income was around $2,200 last year.

The cost is now VND518.5 million on Cong Quynh Street, up 62 percent;VND508.65 million on Bui Vien Street, up 59 percent; and VND472.5 million on Pham Ngu Lao Street, up 48 percent.

It is just as high on streets crossing Bui Vien, running around or leading to the walking street, standing at VND600 million per square meter on Le Lai Street and VND440 million on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.

Gachvang predicts that land prices in the area will continue to rise in the coming months when work on Bui Vien has been completed.

The backpacker precinct pulls in around 2,000 tourists on its best days and earns more than VND37 billion ($1.63 million) a year.

New granite paving, stages for music performances, surveillance cameras, security guards, free wifi and public toilets are being installed at an estimated cost of VND13 billion ($572,300).

The story is the same in Hanoi.




Several parts of Hanoi’s Old Quarter around the backpacker area have opened walking zones, and prices have shot up to nearly VND700 million per square meter on some streets.

Prices for one square meter on Dao Duy Tu Street which leads to the backpacker zone have climbed from VND360 million to VND547 million over the past seven months.

The current prices stand at VND660 million per square meter on Hang Can Street, VND650 million on Hang Dao Street and VND582 million on Dinh Liet Street.

Expect to pay VND340-495 million on other streets that lead to the backpacker area, including Ta Hien, Nguyen Sieu, Ma May, Hang Giay, Lan Ong, Hang Ngang, Hang Buom, Luong Ngoc Quyen and Luong Van Can.

[Sturmgrenadier]

Anyone in HCMC District 1 tonight wanna cheong together? PM me!

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

sorry...wrong channel...frequency salah...

Oh yah hor, I remembered you still prefer to PCC to Discovery channel

Cheerios.......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

oops...most of the time you are smart alec...

First post was reality........second one is I kena chaked......haiz.........

Cheerios........SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

quick your type...fly to Phu Quoc rescue her...

What rescue her??? I want to marry her

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Oh yah hor, I remembered you still prefer to PCC to Discovery channel

Cheerios.......SS08 ^_^

Huh...when did i said that...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

First post was reality........second one is I kena chaked......haiz.........

Cheerios........SS08 ^_^

Compliment u n said kena chak...hard to please you...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

What rescue her??? I want to marry her

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

3 claps n 3 cheers...

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

easi lah...just that he sway sway kena caught...

Getting rid of motorcycles would be easy in Wetnam where it is almost an everyday commodity and most people can hide inside their houses....but a whole car is an entirely different story as this thief had discovered

I am no expert to be able to comment on such things but by reading the news you will know why you seldom (seldom, not don't have) read about car thefts there but motorcycles thefts are plenty & common

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Sturmgrenadier

Anyone in HCMC District 1 tonight wanna cheong together? PM me!

Wat a nick .....grenade......take cover.........

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Botarbolampar]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

What rescue her??? I want to marry her

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Haha how many you want to marry ?

[Botarbolampar]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Compliment u n said kena chak...hard to please you...

Chak more mah. He need it badly. Hahaha lol

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Huh...when did i said that...

Ermmmmm nevermind lor.......if not I gotta comb through every past posts again to find.......too lazy to do so........

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Compliment u n said kena chak...hard to please you...

Aiyah I know my own limitations leh, so if somebody commented something about me I will definitely know its the truth or kena chak mah......

Seriously tho, I do not think "Smart Alec" was ever meant to be a compliment at all in the English language unless I have learnt the wrong language when I was a kid

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^