Construction of a new bridge over the Dong Nai River connecting Dong Nai with HCM City’s District 9 will begin at the end of this month.
Construction of a new bridge over the
Under a memorandum of understanding signed last Friday between the Viet Nam Road Administration Department and the Construction Corporation No 1, the Dong Nai Bridge No. 2, will be built 23 meters upriver from the existing
The 461-metre-long, 20-m-wide, five-lane bridge will take VND1.88 trillion (US$117.5 million) and two years to build.
Of the amount, VND622 billion ($38.8 million) will go towards land acquisition and be provided from the State budget. The remaining VND1.26 trillion ($78.7 million), the actual construction cost, will be brought in by the Construction Corporation No 1.
To be built under the build-operate-transfer form, the company will operate and collect toll for almost 30 years.
The bridge is expected to reduce traffic on the 44-year-old
With around 8,000 vehicles using the old bridge every hour during peak hours against a capacity of 4,600, safety has become a factor.
Authorities have forbidden trucks weighing over 25 tonnes from using it since last September.
Road Authority No. 7 has also mandated a distance of 30 meters between heavy trucks travelling over the bridge at the same time.
(Source: VNS)
