To park your car in Vientiane, you need to pay money !!!

Date: Sep 5, 2007

To park your car in Vientiane, you need to pay money !!!

paris_vientiane · Guru

good to see that lao government take into account the problems caused by the uncontroled develoment of cars in Vientiane.

paris_vientiane · Guru

New parking places, fees set
The Mayor of Vientiane, Dr Sinlavong Khoutphaythoune, has announced a new agreement specifying vehicle parking areas and fees in the city.

The new agreement comprises six articles, the first of which describes how the Mayor has directed the Vientiane Urban Development and Administration Authority to repair old parking areas and allocate new spaces alongside roads, as well as setting parking fees.

The authorities are asked to cooperate with Vientiane residents to create parking places in suitable areas to reduce traffic jams and road accidents and to make the city more orderly and attractive, it advised.

The second article details the number of vehicles allowed to park in 18 locations around the city. For example, Mahosot Hospital has been allotted 38 parking spots, while there is space for 58 vehicles at the Patuxay Monument .

The third article explains parking fees in more detail, stating that the price to park will be 3,000 kip, for vehicles that are parked for not more than three hours. Additionally, the fee schedule notes that the authorities will receive 60 percent of the fee, 30 percent will go to the individual or company who operates the service and 10 percent will go to the government.

The agreement will come into force on September 10.

Now that Road No 1 is 85 percent complete and Setthathirat Road has reopened to traffic, parking places along this road are ready for use.

It is expected that Road No 1 will be fully resurfaced in October and the whole project will end in November.

Road No 1 is of great importance since it is used by arrivals at both Wattay International Airport and the Lao-Thai Friendship Bridge , including important guests and tourists, to connect to Vientiane . The stretch undergoing improvement has been damaged over years of use and contains many potholes, and is also prone to flooding during the rainy season.

The project involves rebuilding 27 km of the road in a 2-year project with assistance from the Japanese government. The road is being surfaced with asphalt to improve safety and comfort.

The project is divided into two sections. The first section includes three short stretches - along Samsenthai Road between Thatkhao traffic lights and the King Fa-ngum statue; from Chinaimo fork to Nonghai traffic lights; and from Salakham village to the Thanaleng warehouse.

The second section runs from the King Fa-ngum statue to the Sikhay fork. This is expected to be finished by this year.

By vientiane times
(Latest Update September 05, 2007)

paris_vientiane · Guru

i wish Vientiane won't become like other overcrowded capitals of the world in the next years.

Cars are a wonderfull tool as long as they are not too numerous...
But too many cars in a small place means trafic jams (lost of time and stress), pollution, accidents, car parking problems, noise, more danger when you drive motorbike or bicycle among them, and high cost of money (care, gas...)... it's definitly not good for living conditions

Transportation problems is a big challenge for all capitals in the world... but the solution can be applied only with the support of population (respect trafic rules, use public transportation when it's effective, respect others on the street...)

Date: Sep 5, 2007

Wow! I really support this move which would only make Vientiane more beatiful and also more convinient for people to live.

Date: Sep 5, 2007

I don't think it will work !

why?

Because we don't have many parking spaces in the city center. Most of the parking spaces also located very far from the entertainment center. All the rich people don't even want to walk in a short distance because they are afraid that the sun will burn their beauty skin and the dust will stick on their beautiful faces. They want to show off their big and beautiful cars, do they may don't care about the rules and laws.

Unless the police work hard to monitor and fine those who park in a wrong place. Laos should also plan to build the underground parking lots or so in the hub of Vientiane city to ensure the growth of vehicles in the future.

Date: Sep 5, 2007

First I have to say sorry, because of the picture in this topic related to other topic....the one stated about bad people have nasty intention about LAO, concerning the hmong issue....I want to point out that in the street we see here in this photo....there are hmong people who live along side the street and own shops selling things like the other lao people....to say that hmong people are hunting down by lao army is talking Trash.... hmm hmm

paris_vientiane · Guru

Anonymous wrote:

[...]All the rich people don't even want to walk in a short distance because they are afraid that the sun will burn their beauty skin and the dust will stick on their beautiful faces.

Oh! poor them! i'm so so sorry for their beautifull skin.... BUT THEY WILL HAVE TO RESPECT THE RULES AS EVERYONE. Moreover walking is good for health, don't pollute and don't cost anything.

Anonymous wrote:

They want to show off their big and beautiful cars, do they may don't care about the rules and laws.

And who care's? other people just don"t want to see their cars where they should not be. Maybe the solution is to make them pay a LOT of money if they don't respect the rules. Don't respect the rules should be much much more expensive for those people, unebale to respect others.

If those rich car owners are unable to use their car
- respecting others,
- accepting the constraints of a big and old city that cannot accept cars everywhere in every ways,
maybe they should sell it or give it to someone who really need a car and who is ready to use it correctly

-- Edited by paris_vientiane at 14:48, 2007-09-05

paris_vientiane · Guru

Only 3000 kip for one car/3 hours? wow... that's so cheap. If i remember well, it's not significantly more expensive than the price you have to pay to parc a motorbike in many places in VT...

But a car use at least 5 time more space than a motorbike (maybe 10 for big pick-up)... so i think the price should be 5 time more expensive than the price for a motorbike.

This would make more money to build effective and comfortable public transportation network (bus...), and would dissuade some of them from taking their car if they don't really need it (they would prefer motrobike, or walking.... less intrusive solution) , and so reduce trafic jam.

And even 15000 kip is not so expensive if you compare with the price of the car and gas.
or maybe parking for motrobike is free in those places, so in this case, ok, let's make the car drivers pay 3000 kip, to show the difference.

and if they don't go to autorised places, they should have to pay a fine of much much higher than this... the fine should be high enough to dissuade people from "forgeting" the rules.

-- Edited by paris_vientiane at 15:52, 2007-09-05

Date: Sep 5, 2007

It is long over due. These days nothing is for free. No free ride and no free parking

Date: Sep 7, 2007

To live in the society, you have to follow the regulation or not you have to move to where you feel like to live, everything when it becomes a problem it has to be solved, if it not work you have to find another methods to solve it. so who say this not work? please present your choice? when did your reseach be conduted to solved this problem? non sense!