Overpass proposed for Nga Tu Vong Intersection

An elevated road 32.8 metres high has been proposed to be built through at the intersection of Nga Tu Vong in Hanoi.

This is one of the three proposals for the construction of Belt Road No. 2 project’s Vinh Tuy-Nga Tu So Intersection section that Transport Engineering Design Inc. (TEDI) under the Ministry of Transport has sent to the Hanoi People’s Committee.

Pham Huu Son, TEDI’s general director, said, “The design for Nga Tu Vong Intersection, which is part of Belt Road 2 Project, is quite complicated because it includes the Vong Bridge, which is 13 metre high. Also, the city’s planned Yen Vien-Ngoc Hoi elevated railway will be built above the bridge.”

The first proposal by TEDI was to build a tunnel underneath Nga Tu Vong Intersection. The second was to build an elevated road, located between the Vong Bridge and Yen Vien-Ngoc Hoi elevated railway.

Son said that the second option would be the most feasible without the railway project. However, the railway would require complicated changes in the project.

He said that TEDI has a third option of building an elevated road of 32.7 metres, equal to a seven-floor building, above both Vong Bridge and the railway.

Son said the 5.94-km Vinh Tuy-Nga Tu So section of Belt Road No. 2 should have four lanes and be 19 metres in width.

The Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, Nguyen The Thao, confirmed that Hanoi has no plan to deconstruct the current overpasses in order to build Belt Road 2, as some sources have said earlier.  -VIR

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