Environmental Issue 5- Excessive Noise
By Jooyeon Hwang
According to the Korean Business Investment magazine, Vietnamese have the largest number of motorcycles per capita in the world. I believe that I saw as many motorcycles in Vietnam in 10 days as I have seen in my life.
The noise of the many motorcycles made me wake up before 5:00am. For a moment, I was wondering where all the motorcycles were coming from. Vehicles were packed in every narrow road like a parking lot in motion. I couldn’t think seriously in the middle of the street.
Furthermore, when I took a bus to go to rural areas around Ha Noi city, bus driver kept honking his horn every 10 seconds. It was not only his driving problem but also most of driver’s habit. Honking horns were used constantly, often for no apparent reason. The Vietnamese government couldn’t make the regulation to control these levels by law. The answer could be very simple, disallow horns.