A 66-year-old widow collects very moderate toll fees for a one-km path she and her husband built on their own six years ago.
They call her Mrs. BOT, but as an endearment, not a derogatory epithet. The term, build-own-transfer, otherwise carries the connotation of many expensive toll fee stations along Vietnamese roads.
Mrs. BOT of the southernmost province of Ca Mau is a total different story.
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Truong Thi Yen, 66, is at her home in Ca Mau Province, where she and her husband built a concrete road for locals for free. Photo by VnExpress/Hoang Hanh. |
Tiếp tục đọc “Mrs. BOT finds a way as villagers volunteer to pay”





Bộ GTVT và các địa phương kiểm soát chặt chẽ, đúng quy định với hoạt động thu phí tại các trạm BOT đường bộ trên cả nước.







