The Hanoi traffic police’s proposal to allow Hanoians to own only one car and one registration plate interferes with the citizens’ right to own property.
A traffic jam on a section of Thai Ha street in Hanoi. A proposal to only allow one car per person is proving controversial (Source: Tuoitre.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoitraffic police’s proposal to allow Hanoians to own only one car and oneregistration plate interferes with the citizens’ right to own property.
This was said by Nguyen Thanh Tu, head of theMinistry of Justice’s Civil and Economic Law Department at a recent pressconference in Hanoi, reported the Cong an nhan dan (People’sPolice) online newspaper.
The proposal, put forth to tackle the capital’sworsening traffic situation, was very controversial, Tu said.
"To fix the traffic congestion problem, weneed a set of solutions, from improving our transport infrastructure totightening traffic rules," Tu said.
To control the rise in purchases of vehicles forpersonal use, the authority should impose higher tax on the second car, insteadof limiting people from owning more than one car, he suggested.
The controversial proposal to limit people fromowning more than one vehicle was made last week by Colonel Dao Vinh Thang, headof Hanoi Traffic Police Division. Under the proposal, a citizen could own onlyone car and would be issued only one registration plate. If the owner wanted tosell the old car and buy another one, he or she would have to use the sameregistration plate.
Thang said he came up with the proposal as thecity’s transport infrastructure was under intense pressure, with the number ofnewly registered vehicles rising by 16,000 bikes and 500 cars every month.
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A traffic jam on a section of Thai Ha street in Hanoi. A proposal to only allow one car per person is proving controversial (Source: Tuoitre.vn) 
