Prime Minister seeks progress on HCMC Ring Road 3
PM Pham Minh Chinh said Sunday he wanted sub-project 1A of Ho Chi Minh City’s Ring Road 3 project to be completed by April 2025, six months ahead of schedule.
He gave the instruction while inspecting construction of the key and urgent traffic project, asking officials in localities home to Ring Road 3 to soon hand over clean sites. The PM added that contractors who perform their tasks well would be prioritized in other projects.
Sub-project 1A, at 8.2 kilometers in length, will link provincial road 25B in Dong Nai province with the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway. Work on it started in September last year and is set for completion in September 2025.
The sub-project has two key packages namely the 2.6-kilometer Nhon Trach bridge across the Dong Nai river connecting to HCMC and two approach roads with a total length of more than 5.6 kilometers.
To date, Dong Nai has handed over clean sites for about 1.3 kilometers of 6.3 kilometers in the sub-project, while HCMC has done this for nearly 2 kilometers under its responsibility.
Ring Road 3 will run 76.3 kilometers through HCMC and the provinces of Dong Nai, Binh Duong, and Long An. It is expected to cost VND75.4 trillion ($3.2 billion) in all.
Roads in Cat Lai Area of Thu Duc city on the outskirts of HCMC. Photo courtesy of Vietnam News Agency.
In his Sunday inspection trip along the whole route, PM Chinh asked localities to speed up site clearance work so that the project construction can start this June. For the entire project, the technical opening is expected by June 2025, while it would open to traffic one year later.
To further boost regional connectivity based on the key project, the government leader asked stakeholders to soon research Ring Road 4, which would be almost 200 kilometers long through HCMC, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Long An, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces.
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