Construction on HCM City-Trung Luong expressway expected to be finished in 2011

The government delegation, state budget management board of HCM City People’s Council met and worked with Vietnam Expressway Investment and Development Corp to discuss about the implementation progress of three expressway projects of HCM City-Trung Luong, HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay and Ben Luc-Long Thanh on January 6, 2011.

In details, for HCM City-Trung Luong expressway project, Do Ngoc Dung, vice general director of My Thuan project management board said after nearly one year of temporary operation, the HCM City – Trung Luong Exporessway has help solve the traffic jam and reduce the number of accidents on National Highway No 1A. However, with current construction speed, it was predicted that the construction would be completed by the end of Q1, and the project management board will begin collecting toll charges from April 30, 2011.

As for the HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway project, Tran Xuan Sanh, VEC’s general director said that the project has already finished the designing works, and selecting six contractors. Up to now, the construction work for the whole project has finished 9 percent only.

The main reason was due to delay in works of ground clearance and resettlement for the local people. The city’s functional authorities have failed to make compensation for the households.

Sanh said that the project may be finished in time in 2013 in case of completing the ground clearance work.

Relating to Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway project, VEC announced that the project has total length of 57.8 kilometres running through Ben Luc, Can Giuoc (Long An province) and Binh Chanh, Nha Be, Can Gio (HCM City), Nhon Trach and Long Thanh (Dong Nai province). There are two large bridges over the river of Binh Khanh and Phuoc Khanh, plus nine bridges and five overhead bridge. In the first phase, the contractors will build the four lane expressway with road width of 27.5 metres, while in the second phase of constructing eight lanes and road surface of 42.5 metres. The total investment capital for the first phase of the project was estimated at over 31 trillion dong, to be carried out within the period of 2012-2017. – SGTT

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