Cuu Long ( Mekong ) River Delta plans to replace all footbridges in the region as part of its socio-economic development plan.
Over the past decade, the region has replaced more than 4,000footbridges made of bamboo and wood, and built more than 11,000 newbridges.
The 13 provinces in the Mekong Delta have aninterlacing system of canals and rivers with thousands of temporarybridges built to connect the region.
Poor transport infrastructure hinders travelling, student trips to schools, and circulation of goods in the region.
The increase in transport costs has resulted in losses for farmers whohave to pay 15 percent of their income for travelling and goodstransport, according to Nguyen Van Son, an expert from the Mekong DeltaInstitute for Research and Development.
The regionalprovinces have generated financial support from organisations andindividuals to implement the programme to replace footbridges withconcrete ones.
Ben Tre, among the leading provinces inthis programme, has replaced more than 2,600 bridges in the past 12years with most of the financial sources coming from local residents.
The province has spent 1.3 trillion VND (62 million USD) to build bridges and upgrade roads in rural areas.
Since 2006, the An Giang government and its residents have built nearly500 bridges while Ca Mau built more than 1,580 bridges in 2009 and 2010in its rural areas, with a total investment of 350 billion VND (16.6million USD) from civil society.
Last month, atransportation development plan until 2020 for the Mekong Delta wasapproved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. It targets building acomprehensive interprovincial transport system to boost the region'seconomic development.
The plan calls for building access roads to communes and paving district roads with concrete in all Delta provinces.-VNA
Over the past decade, the region has replaced more than 4,000footbridges made of bamboo and wood, and built more than 11,000 newbridges.
The 13 provinces in the Mekong Delta have aninterlacing system of canals and rivers with thousands of temporarybridges built to connect the region.
Poor transport infrastructure hinders travelling, student trips to schools, and circulation of goods in the region.
The increase in transport costs has resulted in losses for farmers whohave to pay 15 percent of their income for travelling and goodstransport, according to Nguyen Van Son, an expert from the Mekong DeltaInstitute for Research and Development.
The regionalprovinces have generated financial support from organisations andindividuals to implement the programme to replace footbridges withconcrete ones.
Ben Tre, among the leading provinces inthis programme, has replaced more than 2,600 bridges in the past 12years with most of the financial sources coming from local residents.
The province has spent 1.3 trillion VND (62 million USD) to build bridges and upgrade roads in rural areas.
Since 2006, the An Giang government and its residents have built nearly500 bridges while Ca Mau built more than 1,580 bridges in 2009 and 2010in its rural areas, with a total investment of 350 billion VND (16.6million USD) from civil society.
Last month, atransportation development plan until 2020 for the Mekong Delta wasapproved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. It targets building acomprehensive interprovincial transport system to boost the region'seconomic development.
The plan calls for building access roads to communes and paving district roads with concrete in all Delta provinces.-VNA
