A 20km section of the HCM City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway will open to traffic in late December, the investor of the project has said.
A 20km section of the HCM City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway will open to traffic in late December, the investor of the project has said.
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| A 20km section of the expressway from the Eastern Ring Road (also called the Second Ring Road) in HCM City's District 9 to National Highway No 51 in neighbouring Dong Nai Province will become operational on December 30. |
Mai Tuan Anh, director of the Viet Nam Expressway Company (VEC), said the section of the expressway from the Eastern Ring Road (also called the Second Ring Road) in HCM City's District 9 to National Highway No 51 in neighbouring Dong Nai Province is scheduled to begin temporary operation on December 30.
This section will shorten the distance from HCM City to Long Thanh from 45km to 22km, and from HCM City to Vung Tau from 120km to 95km.
The HCM City - Dau Giay - Long Thanh expressway is 55km long, connecting HCM City with National Highway No 51, Long Thanh International Airport and National Highway No 1A.
It requires total investment of about VND20.630 billion (nearly US$978.3 million). Capital will come from loans provided by the Asian Development Bank, official development assistance (ODA) loans from the Japanese Government and counter-capital from the Vietnamese Government.
Anh said the new expressway would help ease traffic congestion on National Highway 1A in the Southern Economic Zone covering HCM City, Bien Hoa and Vung Tau.
According to VEC, during the temporary operation, vehicles allowed to travel include motorbikes operating at under 70km per hour, three-wheeled taxis, tractors, vehicles carrying toxic and inflammable goods, trailers, tank trucks, 10-tonne and over trucks, and 20 - 40 feet-long trucks.
They will be allowed to travel between 60 and 100 km per hour on the expressway during the time, said Anh.
He said a toll-collection station would be placed at km11 in Long Phuoc Commune in HCM City's District 9.
During the first stage, the new expressway will have eight toll lanes (four lanes on each side) and will be enlarged to 14 lanes when completed.
Vehicles under 12 seats and buses under two-tonnes will have to pay VND2,000 per km.
Twelve- to 30-seat and two- to four-tonne trucks will pay VND3,000 per km, and 31-seat buses and four-10 tonne vehicles VND4,000 per km.
The builders of the expressway are a consortium of the Construction Engineering Co. No 6 (Cienco 6), Construction Engineering Co, No 8 (Cienco 8) and the Korean construction and engineering company POSCO.
The Viet Nam Expressway Company is the investor of the HCM City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Project.
(Source: VNS)
