Nguyen Van Nam, director of Nhat Quang Shipping Service Company, Ltd., said in a meeting with the city Transport Department that the vehicles have to be cleaned from solid waste on the tires, their under space, and checked for their gas emissions and the sounds they produce.
A couple of waste treatment stations along each street into the downtown will clean the vehicle, take the cleaning fee and charge some fine if the gas emission and sound are higher than permitted, Nam said.
Closer to the downtown, there will be another station on the street where vehicles which want to save time can go straight there without passing the treatment stations, but the vehicles will have to pay a higher fee, he suggested.
“It’s fair that vehicles have to pay for polluting the environment,” Nam said.
He also suggested setting up a center to receive all information about the vehicles going through the station and analyze the information to decide if the city should contain the flow of coming vehicles, and how.
The stations and the center suit Vietnam’s environment and traffic laws, creating some jobs and earn a lot of money to the city, Nam said.
He said the stations might be only needed for a while and can be switched to other purposes.
But the transport department has doubted about the plan.
Tran The Ky, deputy director of the department, told Saigon Tiep Thi the measure is hard to carry out as the city doesn’t have land for holding the vehicles and the city do not have clear laws about how a vehicle is polluting.
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