Temporary sidewalk usage fee collection in Ba Ria

TPO - The project to collect temporary sidewalk usage fees in Vung Tau City, Ba Ria and Phu My Town combined with the installation of security cameras and traffic monitoring systems, surveillance cameras in public areas creates peace of mind for tourists.

According to Mr. Le Ngoc Khanh, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, the People's Committee of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province has issued a plan to implement the "Year of Urban Renovation" from April 2023 to June 2025 with many specific activities, carried out synchronously and continuously.

Accordingly, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province selected Con Dao district to build a model district for urban beautification; Vung Tau city, Ba Ria city, Phu My town each selected at least 2 wards to build a model unit for urban beautification. The remaining districts each selected at least 1 town to build a model unit for urban beautification.

This plan aims to launch a movement to effectively carry out tasks related to urban beautification, urban order, building and developing the image of urban areas of Ba Ria - Vung Tau province for domestic and foreign tourists, contributing to the development of high-quality tourism.

Through implementation, urban beautification, environmental sanitation, and ensuring urban order have had positive changes. Urban beautification projects have been accelerated; many localities have implemented solutions to upgrade, renovate, beautify, and build impressive public spaces to attract tourists and residents, especially during holidays and Tet.

How to collect temporary sidewalk usage fees in Ba Ria - Vung Tau? photo 1

Vung Tau City collects fees for using sidewalks and cars parked on the street. Photo: VT

Along with that, urban order management has been strengthened; model roads and beautiful models in urban beautification have been built; people's awareness of building a cultural and civilized urban lifestyle has been increasingly raised.

Through the implementation of many good models, good practices have been spread to the grassroots, such as the "Green Sunday" model of Vung Tau City; the "Recycled Garbage Collection" model of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Provincial Youth Union...

Notably, a number of major projects directly serving tourism have been given attention and focused on implementation, including the detailed planning of the Thuy Van - Bai Sau axis, Vung Tau; the organization of a night market service area in Ba Ria City; the Night Quarter, the sea-view bridge in Xuyen Moc, the Ho Tram public beach park, etc.

At the same time, the project to collect temporary sidewalk usage fees in Vung Tau City, Ba Ria and Phu My Town combined with the installation of security cameras and traffic monitoring systems, surveillance cameras in public areas greatly contribute to ensuring traffic safety, security and order, creating peace of mind for tourists and residents in the area.

However, in addition to the achieved results, in Ba Ria - Vung Tau there are still limitations that need to be overcome. That is the situation of cars parking on roads with prohibition signs, on sidewalks, especially in apartment areas, at some restaurants, eateries, coffee shops...

The progress of public parking construction investment projects is still very slow, especially during holidays and weekends in Vung Tau City. Some localities have not effectively implemented the project of collecting temporary sidewalk fees, causing sidewalk encroachment to recur.

The situation of illegal construction of individual houses, construction without permits, construction on agricultural land, illegal construction within the protection area of hydraulic works, illegal construction in forest land still occurs in some localities but has not been completely handled. Especially in some industrial parks and industrial clusters, construction still occurs when land procedures have not been completed, without permits, or without permits.