Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Myanmar has now four million motors: official figures

Myanmar has now nearly four million motor cars officially registered to run on its roads through out the country, according to official figures from Department of Transport.

The department said it has officially registered 3,739,807 motor cars and the biggest regions such as Yangon, Mandalay, Sagaing and Magway have the most among them.


The official classification includes vehicles such as passenger cars, trucks, passenger buses, two-wheels, three-wheels, and machineries. Yangon, the commercial hub of the country, has passenger cars and buses mostly registered, and Mandalay has motorbikes mostly, the department said.

Yangon took up about 10 per cent of all motors registered in the whole country with nearly four lakhs of registered vehicles.

And the city faced more traffic congestions in these days as the government’s new car replacement program stimulated more vehicle imports into the country and the city received the largest share of it.

A law is on its way to tackle the traffic congestion effectively of the city by Yangon City Public Transport Authority which is formed recently by the government.

And the Greater Yangon Strategic Development Plan, which has been partly funded in coordination with the Japan International Cooperation Agency to be implemented jointly with Yangon Region’s government, will include construction of rapid circular roads to relieve the congestion.

source: Eleven Myanmar

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