In VN, it is not as good as you thought after reading this article. Though it was said that the government would invest billion dollars into infrastructure, the results are depressingly terrible due to endemic corruptions among government officials. More often than not, Vietnamese people have to suffer from badly conditioned roads which have just been constructed several months ago! Moreover, traffic in VN is a complete chaos, especially during rush hours in big city like Ho Chi Minh City, where I am living and working. Every people try their best to squeeze through each minimal centimeter without a slightest idea about safety. It's no wonder that one day, when you're "peacefully" riding your bike to work or school, suddenly, there is a motorbike coming in your way without any signals and really, really fortunately for you and him/her, no accident happens. I have to cope with these annoyances and hazards everyday. There are loads of tragic accidents because of the lack of safety awareness among road users and of course, a lot of low quality routes. Speaking of routes, I've found out that, I couldn't find out the right place despite following exactly directions. House numbers in HCMC is another mystery that maybe I can never figure out in my life! How could it possibly to number 2 at one end of the road, 60 (OMG????!!!!) in the middle and 1 at another end. I will never ever get it! Rumour has it that there was a fatal traffic accident of a Japanese engineer during the time he visited VN, harboring a scheme to improve our traffic system. Unfortunately, he had failed from the scratch because the one he wanted to ameliorate had killed him first. I don't know if this story is true or not but I've heard it often in gossips. Maybe, this disease, along with other epidemics we are suffering, can't be cured completely but I always hope it can be better and better over the days. In fact, I can see some remarkable changes that make our day lives easier, building up high way is brilliant for long journey, but it is still limited to people who only has bikes. Hope someday, my motorbike home trip (about 100 km) can take up 1,5 hours instead of 2-3 hours.