Ho Chi Minh City authorities have asked the local transport department,
taxi associations and related agencies to propose solutions to reorganize the
local taxi industry, including restricting the number of cars.
Experts have
recently warned about the excessive number of taxis in the city, saying they
should be limited to 1,000 cars per one million people.
By this measure, the city would need 8,000
taxis to serve its 8 million populations. However, there are at least 11,758
registered taxis under the management of 35 companies citywide, they said.
The large number of taxis, including many
unregistered ones, are plying the streets without proper zoning, and is a
significant factor in the traffic jams that occur so often in the city, said
Associate Professor Pham Xuan Mai of the HCMC University of Technology.
