HCMC – Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) is studying a scheme to develop a temporary road connecting HCMC with the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, as the expressway section in the city has not finished site clearance.
VEC mulls temporary road linking city to expressway
By Anh Quan - The Saigon Times Daily
HCMC – Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) is studying a scheme to develop a temporary road connecting HCMC with the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, as the expressway section in the city has not finished site clearance.
The HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway will be partially opened to traffic in late this year, but site clearance has yet to be completed in the 4.2-km approach in HCMC’s District 9, said Le Manh Hung, director of the authority for the southern expressway projects.
At present, HCMC still lacks VND900 billion for site clearance compensation. The municipal government requests the districts to hand over cleared sites to the contractor no later than September this year.
However, even when site clearance is done, it will take around 30 months to handle the mud pockets and the soft soil in the area that the expressway runs through. Therefore, VEC is studying a plan to open a temporary road from Do Xuan Hop Street in District 9 to connect the city to the expressway, said Hung.
According to schedule of VEC, the contractor has finished some 55% of the workload. Particularly, the package 1A for building a 3.5-km section in District 9 will be finalized within this month and the package 1B for bridge development will wrap up in December.
The HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway has a total length of 55 kilometers, connecting HCMC and Dong Nai.