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Cat Lai Port tunnel in HCM City opens to traffic

An underpass was opened to traffic on January 31 at the My Thuy intersection in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 to help reduce congestion on routes leading to Cat Lai Port.
Cat Lai Port tunnel in HCM City opens to traffic ảnh 1A new underpass at ​My Thuy intersection in HCM City’s District 2 will help reduce traffic congestion on routes leading to ​Cat Lai Port (Photo: VNA).

HCM City (VNA) - An underpasswas opened to traffic on January 31 at the My Thuy intersection in Ho Chi Minh City’sDistrict 2 to help reduce congestion on routes leading to Cat Lai Port.

The two-lane tunnel, which measures 405m inlength and 9m in width, has a 40km/h speed limit.

Two and three-wheel vehicles andpedestrians are banned from using the tunnel.

Le Ngoc Hung, director of the city’s UrbanTraffic Management Zone 2, said the tunnel would help reduce traffic jams at MyThuy intersection, which is the meeting point of two streets – Nguyen Thi Dinh leadingto the port and Vo Chi Cong.

Vehicles travelling on the HCM City-Long Thanh-DauGiay expressway and Vo Chi Cong (Ring Road No 2) can now go through the tunnelto enter the port instead of going through the intersection, he said.

Construction on the My Thuy intersectionbegan in June 2016 with total investment of around 840 billion VND (36.8million USD) for the first phase.

Besides the underpass, a flyover is alsoexpected to open for traffic before the end of April.

About 18,000 vehicles travel through MyThuy intersection every day. - VNA
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