(Engineering daily) Nguyen Anh Duong = A proposed $460million expressway will run from HCMC to the Moc Bai border gate in Tay Ninh Province.
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam has submitted a pre-feasibility study on the proposed 53.3㎞ long expressway to the Ministry of Transport.
According to the study, construction of the highway would take place under the form of a public-private partnership. It would be done in two phases and cost around $459.36million.
The road will run from Ring Road 3 (Hoc Mon District, HCMC) to Moc Bai, an international border gate between Vietnam and Cambodia in the southern Tay Ninh Province.
The first phase will involve construction of two separate sections of highway. The first will be a 33㎞ section from HCMC to Trang Bang, a district in Tay Ninh Province, which will have four lanes and a design speed of 120㎞/h. The second section from Trang Bang to Moc Bai, 20.5㎞ long, will also have four lanes with a design speed of 80㎞ per hour.
After the two sections are completed, the second phase of construction will expand expressway to 6-8 lanes.
The People's Committees of Ho Chi Minh City and Tay Ninh Province will request the Ministry of Transport to seek the Prime Minister’s permission to implement the project.
Both localities have said that they would pay the project’s land clearance compensation from their own budgets. This would entail HCMC and Tay Ninh paying $85.87million and $42.94million respectively.
The remaining $343.48 million in construction costs will be covered by private investors who will be selected in a bidding process or appointed by the government.
