On the morning of May 30, the key project worth 2,538 billion VND of Hanoi - Vinh Tuy 2 Bridge, officially closed the final section. Construction units will continue to work on the railing, install lighting and landscape systems, asphalt concrete, paint lines and organize traffic.
The Vinh Tuy Bridge Phase 2 project started construction on January 9, 2021. Thanks to the accelerated progress, the closing date was completed about 1 month earlier than expected.
The bridge spans are designed parallel, located right next to the old Vinh Tuy Bridge. Vinh Tuy 2 Bridge is expected to open to traffic on the occasion of National Day, September 2 this year.
The construction site is a river, so the construction unit used cantilever technology, 10 1,000-ton barges carrying materials, three concrete mixing stations and many other machines and equipment on shore were mobilized to construct the bridge piers.
Vinh Tuy 2 Bridge has a total length of about 3,473m (including bridge and approach road); including 61 spans (8 continuous cantilever box girder spans crossing the main stream; 44 Super T spans crossing the northern river bank; 3 cantilever box girder spans crossing the Ta Hong dike; 6 hollow slab box girder spans cast on scaffolding).
The bridge surface is littered with materials as the project is rushing to complete the final stage.
After opening to traffic, Vinh Tuy 2 bridge will be organized to have one-way traffic from the inner city to the suburbs, while Vinh Tuy 1 bridge will go in the opposite direction.
According to the transportation planning to 2030, with a vision to 2050, Hanoi will have 10 more bridges across the Red River, including: Hong Ha, Me So (Ring Road 4), New Thang Long (Ring Road 3), Tu Lien, Vinh Tuy (phase 2), Thuong Cat, Ngoc Hoi (Ring Road 3.5), Tran Hung Dao bridge/tunnel, Phu Xuyen bridge, Van Phuc (North-South axis road connecting to Vinh Phuc province).
A team of hundreds of workers were arranged to live right under the bridge to speed up construction progress.
Vinh Tuy 2 Bridge is designed with a cross-section width of 19.3m equivalent to four lanes including: two lanes for motor vehicles, one lane for buses, one mixed lane and a pedestrian strip. Currently, the bridge has been partially completed (from Long Bien up), paved and has protective railings on both sides.
The project starts at the intersection of Tran Quang Khai - Nguyen Khoi - Minh Khai streets (Hai Ba Trung district) and ends at the intersection of Long Bien - Thach Ban streets (Long Bien district). Once put into use, the project is expected to solve the problem of traffic congestion at the gateway to the capital, the section across the Red River.
Source
Comment (0)