Hanoi will step up its efforts to complete a project designed to expand belt road 3 that links the inner district of Cau Giay to the Noi Bai international airport in preparations for the city’s millennium anniversary in October.

At the proposal of General Director of the Transport Engineering Design Inc Pham Huu Son, the project will be divided into two components to ensure its feasibility and make it easy to clear the project sites and deal with emerging issues.

The first component will widen an 11.7-km section from Thang Long Bridge to the crossroads with national highway 2. The section will be enlarged to 29m and have six lanes, including four for big vehicles.

The remaining 5.5 km section, which connects Mai Dich ward in Cau Giay with Thang Long Bridge , will also be expanded to 29m for six lanes in the first phase.

In the second phase, this road section will be widened to between 56-58m as approved by the municipal People’s Committee to accommodate increasingly heavy traffic between inner Hanoi city and the airport.

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao requested the city’s concerned agencies to clean up illegal advertisement boards and upgrade the lighting system along the section by June to welcome visitors during its 1,000 th anniversary celebrations./.