As Thanh Nien reported, during the inspection in early 2024, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned Ho Chi Minh City the task of accelerating and breaking through to complete Ring Road 3 within 2 years. Along with that, the leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City transport sector are determined to close Ring Road 2 and start construction of Ring Road 4. If all goes well, by 2027, the most important backbone network of Ho Chi Minh City's transport will be completed, opening suburban roads to make a breakthrough in the entire region's economy.
Ring Road 3 project (HCMC) enters the acceleration phase
During the working session on the afternoon of February 22 at the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, the Ministry of Transport and localities also met on the plan to build Ho Chi Minh City's Ring Road 4. The provinces held a regional council meeting to propose updating the scale of Ho Chi Minh City's Ring Road 4 with a length of 207 km, the first phase investment cross-section is 4 lanes, and the one-time clearance is 8 lanes. Up to now, Binh Duong has approved the site clearance compensation and is currently preparing a construction project. Ba Ria-Vung Tau is also ready to submit the investment policy, only worrying about the mechanism and capital source. The pre-feasibility study of the project on the Dong Nai side has also been basically completed. Particularly, the section of the ring road in Long An has also had investors interested in studying. Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport Tran Quang Lam affirmed: "Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 4 is a national key project, playing an important role in breaking through the infrastructure of the southern key economic region. The development plan of Ho Chi Minh City is linked to the provinces in the region, has satellite cities and a policy of developing open space".
Need to do it to the end
Receiving the exciting news about the determination to speed up the beltway projects to seamlessly connect traffic for the southern economic inter-region, readers of Thanh Nien Newspaper have high expectations for the effort to change the face of the traffic infrastructure of Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring localities. Minh Nghia Newspaper believes: "When the infrastructure is synchronized, it will help the regional economy develop sustainably. It is worth waiting for a new infrastructure face in the near future". Along with the expectations about the synchronization of traffic infrastructure, mtrangg7773 Newspaper noted the effectiveness when Ho Chi Minh City accelerates the beltway routes: "We must proactively promote the development and construction of key national projects for the traffic development strategy, but it is very necessary to complete each step, avoiding the situation of spreading out and prolonged delays that limit efficiency. In addition, there are issues of design, appraisal, approval... These challenges are not only faced by Ho Chi Minh City". Agreeing, Truong Luu expressed: "I also hope that the projects are on schedule and of the right quality so as not to disappoint the people. The most frightening thing is that this belt road has not yet been completed, but the new belt road project has been opened, and the deadline has been delayed, postponed... making everything look messy."
Maintain the planning 'front'
In addition to the expectation of the progress of completion and implementation of belt road projects, many agencies also raised concerns about the consistency of the planning stage so that belt roads are truly the traffic arteries connecting the region. Agency Khac Hung Dinh commented: "We must calculate to avoid the situation where bypass roads and belt roads have not been completed but numerous residential and urban area projects are springing up like mushrooms. The consequence is that a few years later, those belt roads will turn into inner-city roads, broken up every rush hour. This depends on the planner". Agreeing, Agency Thuy Loan suggested: "If the infrastructure of the belt road is synchronized, the localities also need to sit down to unify the planning along the route. Only then can we avoid the situation where one end is clear but the other end is congested".
Key projects, hopefully will always be completed on schedule./.
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