Students in some outlying districts of Ho Chi Minh City have to brave bad roads pockmarked with numerous potholes to go to school every single day.

Many roads in such districts as Binh Tan, Binh Chanh, and Hoc Mon have deteriorated.

Lots of potholes have popped up on these roads, causing vehicles to easily get stuck and making life risky for daily commuters.

In this rainy season, more commuters, including students, have become victims of the muddy, potholed roads, as their clothes were splashed with mud every time a vehicle passed by a waterlogged pothole without noticing there was one.

The one-kilometer-long Ho Van Long Street, located in Binh Tan District, is badly damaged and lined with many small and large muddy, waterlogged potholes.

Vehicles have to travel near the roadside to avoid hitting water-filled potholes on this street, which serves as the main route leading to Binh Tan High School and the Le Thanh-Tan Tao residential area in Binh Tan District and thereby it reports a huge daily traffic volume.

Hong Thu, 35, a local woman, said many commuters, mostly women and the elderly, tripped and fell off their vehicles when passing by this street on rainy days.

The situation has worsened after a rising number of trucks and tractor-trailers travel daily through this already damaged road, she added.

Some five kilometers away from Ho Van Long Street, Nguyen Cuu Phu Street is facing the same fate, with its surface full of potholes, which poses a high risk of traffic accidents.

Nguyen Cuu Phu Street, which links Binh Tan District with neighboring Binh Chanh District, sees a high volume of vehicular traffic, especially trucks and cars.

Similarly, Giac Dao Street in Trung Chanh Commune, Hoc Mon District has seriously aged in the past two years, according to Lap, a 59-year-old resident.

The locals are looking forward to the day when repair work starts on this road, he said.

Commenting on the bad road conditions, Nguyen Minh Nhut, chairman of the Binh Tan District administration, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that authorities are working to accelerate work on a project to upgrade and expand Ho Van Long Street, which runs from an intersection with the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Expressway to the Tham Luong-Ben Cat Canal.

Compensation linked to this project has been carried out since December last year, with 70 households affected by the project.

Until now, 66 households have done with the site handover, while the remaining four are still conducting legal procedures needed for the handover.

Work on the project is expected to begin this month, Nhut said.

Below are some photos of the roads lined with countless potholes in some outlying districts in Ho Chi Minh City:

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