NEWS-Over 400,000 Motor Vehicles Op

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Subject: NEWS-Over 400,000 Motor Vehicles Operating in Myanmar

Over 400,000 Motor Vehicles Operating in Myanmar

               Xinhua
               03-JUN-99

               YANGON (June 4) XINHUA - The number of motor vehicles
               of various types operating in Myanmar totaled 403,677 at
the
               end of February this year, an increase of 25,889 as
               compared with a year earlier, according to the latest
               Economic Indicators issued by the Central Statistical
               Organization. 

               Of these, passenger cars accounted for 177,786, trucks
               52,568, buses 17, 018, motorcycles 149,224 and others
               7,081. 

               With the rising number of motor vehicles, the Myanmar
road
               transport authorities have called for effective
enforcement of
               traffic rules to reduce road accidents, especially in the
               capital city Yangon. 

               There are between 800 and 1,000 motor vehicles reportedly
               involved in traffic rule violations daily in the capital. 

               The capital's Traffic Rules Enforcement Supervisory
               Committee is striving to bring down the number of traffic
               accidents by reinforcing its traffic police force on the
roads. 

               Meanwhile, the authorities have also banned the use of
               stickers to cover glass-windows of the cars for effective
               prevention of crimes eventually committed therein.