If you happen to be a motorbike rider living in Vietnam, you better hope your not too short, thin, or skinny. :jb: http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/861772.html
I think the way the proposal is phrased made it funny but in reality, I believe they just wanna curb motorbiker to allow more car/van/bus in the city as the country head towards future development. As a Vietnamese, I also understand the need to set such a policy. Height and weight do play a role in driving a motorbike if ya'll actually drive one; though I don't know what are the specifics suitable for driving. People who are too short or too thin can easily lose control of the vehicle or difficult for others to see you on the road (you wonder how but it's true). If ya'll been back to Vietnam, you'll find some very ridiculous drivers. They carry wife, kids, a huge load of stuff, hold a cup of coffee on one hand, and a cigarette on the other hand. It's CRAZY. Anyway, car is still a luxury in Vietnam so the proposal better have good reasons to back it up; otherwise, it will be chaos. Some do drive to make a living like "xe om" or get to work. I hate to see reckless drivers on the road as a result of the proposal. I know people will drive and ignore it if it ever becomes a law.
takes alot of patience to cross one of them streets and everyone flocks together so motorists slow down and it is pretty chaotic and dangerous even when the lights are red -wheel-scooterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEMTJZXwooY
VN is afflicted with what most of the world also had problems confronting; old infrastructure suddenly meeting demands that it was never designed for. The streets and roadways came into existence mostly during the colonial era. They were never designed to handle the types of traffic that a modern VN needs. Further complicating this issue is the legions of "vehicle" operators on the road. Like negiqboyz attested to with his humorous eye witness account of the fragile traffic conditions there, VN must set certain standards in order to move its traffic handling ability forward, a must do if the nation is to emerge from backwater status into the modern and high tech industrialized world. Though it may seem draconian at this point, getting rid of many road clogging elements by any means is probably going to be a long term plus for VN. However I do agree that their methodology does seem arbitrarily capricious and patently ridiculous at this point.
There actually aren't as many bicycles anymore there are a load of taxis can cars now. When I was there last year I was surprised to see how everyones got cars now there's soo much traffic
