As scheduled, Hanoi will start work on urban pilot metro line No 3 from Nhon to Hanoi rail Station in this November and then kick off construction on the flyover section from late February 2012. Hanoians expect to travel by metro from 2016 when the No 3 metro line is completed. A pilot metro rail [...]
Ha Noi’s Department of Planning and Architecture announced the final plans for its first urban rail system on Wednesday. Under the plans, the municipal People’s Committee has approved the blueprints for a metro line proposed by Systra Company, which include an 8.5km overground section and a 4km underground section. Ha Noi’s first metro line will [...]
Construction of the road connecting Noi Bai International Airport to Nhat Tan Bridge was kicked off today in Hanoi with the present of the deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai, Minister of Transport Ho Nghia Dung and JICA chief representative Motonori Tsuno. The total length of the connecting road is 12.1 kilometres starting at Km0+00 [...]
The entire East-West Highway, including Thu Thiem Tunnel under the Saigon River, will be officially opened to traffic on November 22 this year. This decision came at a meeting last Friday where HCM City chair Le Hoang Quan was briefed on the project by the city’s Management Board of Traffic Construction and Urban Projects, Japanese [...]
The Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam (DRV) has submitted a proposal to the Construction Ministry on establishing nine road accident and rescue stations along national highways during 2009-15. The VND180 billion (US$8.8 million) stations are set to be built along national highways considered traffic accident “hot spots” in Quang Ninh, Bac Kan, Dien Bien, [...]
The Ministry of Transport has approved a VND2,000 billion (US$97 million) project to build crossroads and two flyovers at the gateway to central Da Nang city. The crossroads and flyovers will remove congestion in what is a main transport node in the central region involving National Highway 1A, the north-south railway and main roads of [...]
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