The Southern economic hub is rushing to realise its traffic infrastructure plan in which nearly 700km of expressway is expected to be built over the next five years.
HCM City (VNA) - The Southern economic hub isrushing to realise its traffic infrastructure plan in which nearly 700km ofexpressway is expected to be built over the next five years.
In the national master plan on the development of the inlandexpressway network towards 2020, the southern economic hub – including eightlocalities of HCM City, Tay Ninh, Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria - Vung Tau, Long An and TienGiang – will have four new routes.
They are the 76km long Bien Hoa-Phu My connecting Dong Nai and Ba Ria – Vung Tauprovinces, the 69km linking HCM City to Thu Dau Mot in Binh Duong province and ChonThanh in Binh Phuoc province, and another one running from HCM Ciy to Moc Bai inTay Ninh province. The last and the longest expressway project will be around208km starting from Dau Giay in Dong Nai through Lien Khuong and to Da Lat inLam Dong province.
A particular network of ring expressway in HCM City is also mapped in themaster plan, including the Ring Road No.3 and Ring Road No.4 which are 89km and198km long, respectively.
An estimated 313trillion VND (13.9 billion USD) is needed to develop the traffic infrastructurein the Southern economic hub over the next five years, according to theauthorities.
According to Transport Deputy Minister Nguyen Ngoc Dong, the Ministry ofTransport was and still is investing in the road infrastructure connecting theSoutheastern region, the Mekong Delta and the Southern economic hub. The threekey expressway projects of the ministry are the HCM City-Trung Lương, HCMCity-Long Thanh-Dau Giay and the route Ben Luc-Long Thanh scheduled to befinished in 2017.
The 40km long HCM City – Trung Luong expressway, opened for traffic in February2012, is deemed a key connection between HCM City and the Mekong Delta region. The expressway passes through three localities of HCM City, LongAn and Tien Giang, helping to shorten the traveling time from the biggest cityin the southern region to Tien Giang by two thirds, down to 30 minutes from 90before.
The latest HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway, officially opened inFebruary last year, also dramatically brought down the time moving to neighbouringlocalities. The 55km road now only takes travellers some 20 minutes to go fromHCM City to Long Thanh instead of one hour, or just one hour instead of threehours to go to Dau Giay.-VNA
An expert delegation from the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) has visited the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho to seek investment opportunities in the local traffic infrastructure system
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has emphasised the significance of comprehensive measures for curbing traffic accidents and congestion and building a friendly and safe transport system.
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