The National Assembly last month approved the construction of 12 North-South Expressway sections totaling 729 kilometers.

The 2,000-kilometer road will run from the far northern province of Lang Son with the southernmost province of Ca Mau.

A winning design conception of the Dong Dang - Tra Linh Expressway in northern Vietnam.

The 12 sections have a total price tag of VND147 trillion ($6.49 billion) and are funded by the government.

Construction of the 93-kilometer Dong Dang – Tra Linh Expressway between Lang Son and Cao Bang provinces is set to begin later this year.

It will cost VND20.9 trillion, have four lanes and a speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour, and will be extended by another 22 kilometers to the border at Tra Linh after 2025.

It will halve the travel time between Hanoi and Cao Bang to three hours.

In the Mekong Delta region, the Rach Mieu Bridge 2 is set to be built in March.

The VND5.2 trillion project will connect the provinces of Tien Giang and Ben Tre.

It will have four lanes with a speed limit of 80 kilometers per hour.

It is set to reduce traffic on the current Rach Mieu Bridge located four kilometers away which is often jammed in the weekends.

Widening of the key HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay expressway will also begin this year, with the number of lanes doubled to eight along a 24-kilometer stretch.

Bridges over the Tac and Long Thanh Rivers will be widened to have 10 and nine lands from the current four.

The work is expected to cost nearly VND13 trillion.

The HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway opened to traffic in 2015, and has been showing signs of being overloaded recently.

A section of the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway.

Construction of the 53.7-kilometer Bien Hoa – Vung Tau Expressway will be done under the public-private partnership model at a cost of VND19.6 trillion.

It will connect the two southern cities, have four to six lanes and intersect the HCMC – Long Thanh – Dau Giay Expressway at Long Thanh.

It is meant to improve connectivity to the Long Thanh International Airport which is being built.

The 200-kilometer Dau Giay – Lien Khuong Expressway between Lam Dong and Dong Nai provinces will improve connectivity to the Central Highlands.

The four-lane highway will ease pressure on the Tan Phu – Bao Loc Road, which also connects the two localities and often suffers from landslides and accidents.

Bac Giang highly focuses on land clearance and construction of key traffic projects

(BGO) – The Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Le Anh Duong on January 11 inspected the schedule of road revamping – expanding project from Nha Nam town (Tan Yen district) to Phon Xuong town (Yen The district) and linkage route among National road No.37 – No.17 - Vo Nhai (Thai Nguyen province).

Seven Vietnamese women trafficked to Cambodia for prostitution rescued

Police have rescued seven Vietnamese women being smuggled to Cambodia to work as prostitutes and arrested three suspected human traffickers.

Bac Giang promotes traffic connectivity to facilitate development

(BGO) - In the transport infrastructure development plan for the 2021–2025 period, with a vision to 2030, the People's Committee of Bac Giang province defines that "Developing the transport infrastructure system is a focal task that needs to be prioritized to create breakthroughs for socio-economic development of each locality and the whole province... Priority will be given to routes connecting with other provinces, serving industrial and tourism development”.

Bac Giang ensures traffic safety when picking up workers from residential area to business

(BGO) – The Steering Committee for recovering industrial production and commercial business in Bac Giang province (Steering Committee) has issued Correspondence about picking up workers from their residential areas to the enterprises and vice versa.

Routing traffic from Lang Son to Bac Giang, Bac Ninh and Hanoi

(BGO) – Implementing the task of Covid-19 prevention and control in Lang Giang district (Bac Giang province), the provincial Department of Transport (DoT) has adjusted the traffic route from Lang Son city to Bac Giang, Bac Ninh and Hanoi cities as well as the converse way as below.

Source: VnExpress