Investment plan for urban traffic axis road Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang
The urban traffic axis of Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang is the route connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the Mekong Delta region, overlapping and planned as National Highway 50B with a length of about 55 km, a grade III road scale, 6 lanes.
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| Map of urban traffic route Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang. |
The Ministry of Transport has just sent an official dispatch to the Prime Minister regarding the investment plan for the Ho Chi Minh City – Long An – Tien Giang urban traffic axis project.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport agrees on the necessity of investing in projects as proposed to the People's Committees of Tien Giang, Long An and Ho Chi Minh City and will closely coordinate in the next implementation process. To prepare documents and files to propose investment policies for the Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang urban traffic axis project (planned as National Highway 50B).
For the section passing through Ho Chi Minh City, the Ministry of Transport proposed that the Prime Minister assign the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to preside over the research and complete relevant procedures to implement the investment immediately after the Ho Chi Minh City Planning Project for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 2050 and the project to adjust the Ho Chi Minh City Master Plan to 2040, with a vision to 2060 are approved.
For the route section passing through Long An and Tien Giang provinces, the Ministry of Transport proposes to assign the People's Committees of Long An and Tien Giang provinces to preside over detailed research on investment options; analyze and select appropriate investment forms; clarify the capital sources and capital structure allocated to the project to organize the preparation and submission to competent authorities for consideration and approval of investment policies for projects according to regulations.
In case of needing support from the central budget, the above 3 localities will complete the report documents to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance for synthesis and submission to competent authorities for consideration and decision.
“The People's Committees of Long An, Tien Giang and Ho Chi Minh City provinces are assigned to take the lead in studying detailed investment plans and developing detailed implementation plans for the entire route to ensure synchronization of the entire route when putting projects on the route into operation, use, and economic and technical efficiency,” the leader of the Ministry of Transport proposed.
It is known that the urban traffic axis of Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang is the route connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the Mekong Delta region, connecting inter-provincial, planned to pass through socio-economic centers, major transportation hubs, industrial parks, promoting trade exchanges, ensuring traffic order and safety and creating development conditions for localities in the region.
The route coincides with and is planned as National Highway 50B, about 55 km long, with a scale of a grade III road and 6 lanes.
Since 2018, localities with routes passing through have proactively discussed and agreed to mobilize investment capital for the Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang Urban Transport Axis Project and have proposed many forms of investment such as calling for investment in the form of PPP, BT contract type; proposed investment from local budget, support from the central budget and prepared a Pre-Feasibility Study Report in the form of PPP.
However, up to now, only 3 large bridges and about 10.8 km of access roads in Long An province have identified investment plans.
Therefore, it is extremely necessary to conduct a comprehensive study to propose a suitable investment plan for the Ho Chi Minh City - Long An - Tien Giang Urban Traffic Axis, creating favorable conditions for the next implementation process.
To ensure consistency across the entire route with the project of 3 bridges on DT.827E (bridges over Can Giuoc River, Dong Vam Co River, Tay Vam Co River) using Korean ODA loans, the Prime Minister has approved the project proposal and proposals from localities. The localities have proposed to consider investing in 2 types of cross-sections to ensure a scale of 6 lanes.
Specifically, the section through the urban area according to the urban main road standard has a roadbed width of 40 m and a road surface width of 22.5 m; the normal section according to the grade III road standard has a roadbed width of 30.5 m and a road surface width of 22.5 m.
Preliminary total investment for the entire route is about 28,616 billion VND, capital source has been identified at 10,456.721 billion VND and needs to continue to balance about 18,160 billion VND.
Accordingly, the section through Ho Chi Minh City is 5.8 km long, with a preliminary total investment of about 5,238 billion VND, of which it is expected to balance 2,619 billion VND (including site clearance costs of about 2,552 billion VND; implementation costs of 2,619 billion VND have not been balanced yet.
The section through Long An province is 35.6 km long, with a preliminary total investment of about 16,208 billion VND, of which 4,797.718 billion VND has been balanced to invest in the project of 3 bridges on DT.827E from ODA loans from Korea; 3,040 billion VND has been balanced to invest in 10.58 km of access roads and carry out site clearance for 3 bridges and access roads from Long An province's budget; about 8,370 billion VND has not been balanced for the investment of the remaining 19.4 km, of which the cost of site clearance is about 1,923 billion VND, the cost of infrastructure investment in resettlement areas is about 3,651 billion VND, and the implementation cost is about 2,796 billion VND.
The section through Tien Giang province is 14 km long, with a preliminary total investment of about 7,170 billion VND, of which the cost of site clearance is about 3,105 billion VND; the cost of implementing the parallel road is about 1,898 billion VND; the cost of implementing the main route is about 2,168 billion VND.
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