Ok, about the traffic. It has become all kinds of wrong. It's like high-stakes gambling every time I get on the road. All the new cars and trucks are making the roads extremely dangerous.
First of all, people are driving cars as if they were motorbikes- meaning that they don't follow any rules and jockey for position the same as everyone else. Whereas before you might be riding along, and all of a sudden a motorbike came right at you against traffic- Now you have to contend with a less shy SUV. It's also harrowing yet thrilling when you have to thread the needle between a bus and a truck and get through before one merges in front of another. It's all utter madness. John Woo or Ringo Lam should film an action movie here.
There's been no great attempt at a mass transit system here yet. Whatever is in place is a rusting heap of sadness in a failure sauce. Saigon needs an elevated train NOW.
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