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It still bears the mark of elegant French colonialism,
but as I wove past the Reconciliation Palace and the
elegant municipal theatre in a tooting ballet of motor
scooters, darting and weaving like the feeding catfish
in the Delta, I had an ugly premonition.
Economists say that soon - maybe as soon as next year
- the income of Vietnam's city families will reach the
size when they will start to buy cars.
And if that happens, then the flow of the hordes of
mopeds will be replaced by logjams, and the human
scale and amiability of this low-rise city will be
shoved aside by angry people in static tin boxes and
looming skyscrapers like the other cities of Asia.
The authorities have big plans for public transport,
and as this is still a centrally directed economy they
may be able to get their way.
But cars have a habit of winning people's hearts and
minds, in a way that the American military never
managed to do, back in the 1970s.
berlinstartup.de- Asia-Pacific, Jens Hoffmann
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