VietNamNet Bridge – Visitors to the capital city all complain
that there is too much noise in Hanoi. In fact, Hanoians have been living
together with the noise pollution for many years.
Joe Ruelle, a young Canadian man,
who has been very famous in Vietnam for his fluent Vietnamese skills,
complained that one of the unpleasant thing when living in Vietnam is that
there is too much noise which one cannot avoid.
In Hanoi, car and motorbike
drivers can beep the horn loudly everywhere, on big roads, or small alleys, and
anytime, no matter it is early in the morning or at midnight.
In fact, the current laws do not
allow vehicle drivers to blow the horns spontaneously. However, the laws have
not been respected by people, while their behaviors do not meet the protest
from the community and the police do not impose punishment on the behaviors.
A horn is the tool for vehicle
drivers to give signals to others on the traffic, but Hanoians have been using
it just to show off their brand new motorbikes, or to annoy others. Some people
like blowing the horns even when the other vehicles remain far away from them,
while others would beep the horns when they are close to others, so as to make
the other people get start.
In Hanoi, when a car driver wants
to pass another, he would beep the horn loudly instead of giving signals, even
though the cars ahead shut all the doors and turn on air conditioners. In rush
hours, the streets turn crowded and boisterous with the noise from engines, the
noise from households, and the smell from exhaust fume.
Especially, people can be
tormented by repeated hoots. People are afraid of the hoots from buses and
trucks, equipped with the horns which can frighten anyone. This kind of horn is
so useful in frightening people that many motorbike drivers also install them
for their vehicles
Dr Pham Tien Dung from the HCM
City Branch of the Institute for Scientific Research and Labor Safety Technique
said that the noise pollution would cause neural inhibition, create tension and
have negative impacts on people’s works and studying.
Hanoians also have to live
together with the air pollution. Dr Pham Ngoc Dang from the Vietnam
Construction Environment Association, who spent many years on studying the
environment in Hanoi, said the air pollution is getting more and more serious.
The suspended dust concentration
in air is always higher by 2-3 times than the allowed level. The figures would
be much higher, by 5-10 times on the construction sites or road maintenance
sites. Especially, the pollution would be even more serious in traffic jams,
where all motor vehicles produce smoke at the same time.
According to ARIA Technologies,
Hanoi is the city which has the smallest percentage of public transport means
in Asia. Every year, Hanoi has 180,000 more put into traffic, including 20,000
cars and 160,000 motorbikes.
This means that the number of
transport means increases by 12-15 percent per annum. By 2011, the total number
of motor vehicles in the city had increased to four million. Meanwhile, the
petrol run engines are believed to be the biggest culprit that causes air
pollution.
Culturists have pointed out that
the behaviors of Hanoians have made the air pollution in Hanoi more serious.
Rubbish has been thrown streets, while dumping grounds have become overloaded.
Meanwhile, Hanoi lacks greenery
areas. Reports show that the public verdure in Hanoi is just 2 square meters
per capita, much lower than that of HCM City (3.3 square meters per capita),
Hue (3.5), Hai Duong (3.7).
Tra My
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