(Engineering daily) Nguyen Anh Duong = A coastal road in Ha Long will be widened by 28m,
Local authorities announced 2.4㎞-long section of Tran Quoc Nghien Road between the Quang Ninh Exhibition Center and the Ha Long – Cam Pha coastal road in Hong Ha District will be widened seaward at a cost of $37.2 million.
It will have 6 lanes instead of the current four when the work is competed in 2020.
The widening would help lessen pollution since the land to be used for it is usually filled with trash, Ho Quang Huy, vice chairman of Ha Long, said.
Ha Long Bay in the northern Quang Ninh Province is a top tourist attraction in Vietnam, helping the province draw more than 5.2 million foreign visitors in 2018, up 22 percent against the previous year.