Dong Nai Province is making final preparations for construction of a bridge connecting highways 1 and 1K to Highway 51 that runs through Bien Hoa City, according to the provincial Department of Transport.
Dong Nai Province is making final preparations for construction of a bridge connecting highways 1 and 1K to Highway 51 that runs through Bien Hoa City, according to the provincial Department of Transport.
Work on the BOT (build-operation-transfer) project is scheduled to start at the end of this month. The bridge will help ease traffic congestion in Bien Hoa City and traffic density at the city’s eastern gateway when it is in place.
The 500-meter-long, 23-meter-wide An Hao bridge will be built at the location of An Hao ferry terminal and have six lanes with four of them for autos. The project costs VND1.3-1.5 trillion including VND338 billion planned for the bridge over a branch of the Dong Nai River.
The government of Dong Nai sent the Ministry of Transport and the Government an investment plan for the bridge project early this year. As designed, the bridge will link Hiep Hoa Isle (Pho Isle) and the intersection of highways 1 and 51 near Vung Tau Intersection.
Tran Van Vinh, vice chairman of Dong Nai Province, said the province has requested the investor to collaborate with relevant agencies to quickly complete procedures to break ground for the An Hao bridge in late December so as to open it to traffic in 2016.
Vinh said An Hao bridge and nearby roads will help connect the financial, commercial and service center built at the premises of Bien Hoa 1 Industrial Zone to Pho Isle cultural and ecotourism center in Bien Hoa City.
As Construction Corporation No.1, the investor of the New Dong Nai Bridge project, finances the An Hao Bridge project, it will be allowed to collect tolls to recover capital for the BOT project.
Le Quang Binh, deputy director of the Dong Nai Department of Transport, said tolls for the An Hao bridge project will be collected at Dong Nai Bridge toll station as it was approved as part of the New Dong Nai Bridge project.
In October this year, the Prime Minister approved the An Hao bridge project and its related components to be added to the New Dong Nai Bridge project.
(Source:SGT)
