In instructions released on Thursday by the Da Nang authorities, the residents, shops and businesses along 16 local major streets are being required to clear the pavements for pedestrians within the next 7 days.

Removing an obstacle on the pavement

The streets include Bach Dang, Tran Phu, Le Duan, Nguyen Van Linh, Hung Vuong, Le Loi, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Nguyen Chi Thanh, 3 February, Nguyen Tat Thanh, 2 September, Quang Trung, Ly Tu Trong, and Thanh Dien Hai. 

In an effort to ensure clear space on pavements for pedestrians, the Hai Chau District’s urban order management team and local police and militia forces are now jointly dealing with pavement order violations.

Their focus is on dealing with the disorderly parking of vehicles and the illegal encroachment of trading activities onto the streets’ pavements, as well as removing improperly built structures which narrow the pavements. 

Members of the Hai Chau District urban order management team

Sidewalk traders along these streets are required to take their businesses away from the sidewalks to ensure a clear space for pedestrians.  As a result, any billboards, parasols, sets of tables and chairs, and stalls selling goods and vending carts disorderly placed on pavements for the purpose of trade, must be moved from these places.

As for motorbike parking, the pavements have a white line along the centre of them.  Motorbike parking is allowed between that white line and the building front, but any parking between the white line and the road will be deemed as ‘disorderly parking’ and subject to a fine.

Removing illegal constructions

Importance will also be attached to dealing with other problems currently blighting the city’s image such as the harassment of tourists, itinerant beggars on local streets, the illegal discharge of domestic effluent onto the pavement, illegal advertisements, and open-air markets.  All affect the aesthetics of the local urban landscape and traffic order.

The dealing with pavement order violations is being conducted during different time periods: between 6:00am and 10:00am, between 3:00pm and 5:00pm, and 7:00pm and 9:00pm every day.