The Trung Luong-My Thuan Expressway, part of the only road linking HCMC with the Mekong Delta, will be expanded to six lanes, with an emergency stop lane.
The Ministry of Transport said early this week that the expanded expressway will have six lanes with a width of 32.25 meters.
The first phase of the expressway, with four lanes and a width of 17 meters, opened to traffic this April.
The new 50-km expressway starts from Tien Giang province’s Chau Thanh district, which lies at the end of the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway and ends in the province’s Cai Be district, connecting to National Highway 30.
Investment for the first phase was more than VND12 trillion ($523.5 million).
With both HCMC-Trung Luong and Trung Luong-My Thuan expressways in service, the travel time by car between HCMC and Tien Giang has been cut to one hour 45 minutes from the previous three hours.