Traffic jams in Vietnam only frequently take (1)……………in Hanoi capital and Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese people seem to be accustomed (2)………….. traffic congestion, even miss it whenever they go to other places. There is no fixed rule for the (3)…………..the traffic jams to happen and it is worst during the rush hour when(4)……………….. is in a hurry to get to work or come back home. Apart from peak hours, the time between 9 am and 10 am and between 3 pm and 4 pm also witnesses long lines of vehicles, mainly motorbikes, struggling to get (5)…………..of narrow streets.

            Whenever it rains, the traffic jam gets more terrible with the joining hand of flooding. Taxis are extremely hard to (6)………….or wave during the downpour. However, it only (7)………….about 30 minutes on average for a standstill and 2 hours to get through the worst, not really bad compared to that of other countries. While the rapid increase in car use coupled with the deterioration of roads caused by disordered planning make the matter worse, the most annoying thing about the traffic jam (8) ……………. the way people react when (9)……………. stuck at the congestion. Most road users ride their motorbikes on the pavement rather (10)………… waiting calmly, or they constantly use their horns to hasten riders in the front, even shouting at them from time to time. More luckily, bicyclists can leisurely carry their "war-horses" on their backs and thread their way through messy matrixes.