Municipal authorities recently issued a document on ensuring traffic safety in the city-centre flower garden area in which cars and trucks were not allowed to be parked in the city-centre streets such as Tran Phu, Tran Duc Canh, Quang Trung and Tran Hung Dao. Lines and signals set up by the Department of Transport which permitted the car parking on in these areas have been removed.
An unlicensed parking lot in a park in Haiphong City
The districts of Hong Bang, Le Chan and Ngo Quyen have been instructed to deal with the illegal parking in the banned areas.
Many local residents support the move by municipal authorities to address illegal parking lots, but they said that this should be done after the city had actually built some public parking areas.
These days following the ban, some parks in the city have been turned into parking lots.
Pavements turned into parking lots
Many cars, including those with state-owned plates parked at the Statue of General Le Chan
Cars parked in front of the city's exhibition centre
