An overview of the meeting (Photo: VNA) Tran Quang Lam, Director of the municipal Department ofTransport, said that the city will speed up the preparation of investment andpropose investment plans for major and urgent projects linking regionallocalities as well as industrial parks and clusters, as well as exportprocessing zones and seaports.
The projects include Belt Roads No. 2 and 3, HCM City-MocBai Expressway, Nguyen Khoai road’s bridge, National Highways No. 50 and 22, Can Giobridge, and overhead roads.
At the same time, the city will launch infrastructureserving the eastern interactive urban area - Thu Duc city, while applyingmeasures to speed up the progress of important projects.
Lam said that the department will coordinate with theDepartment of Planning and Architecture and the People’s Committee of Thu Duc cityas well as districts to adjust their transport infrastructure planning,especially for projects linking regions of the city as well as between the cityand provinces in the southern key economic region.
At the session, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s CommitteeLe Hoa Binh asked the Department of Transport to pay greater attention to transportconnectivity projects, especially those connecting with Long An, Tay Ninh, DongNai, Binh Duong, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau provinces. Meanwhile, the department should alsofocus on waterway projects which serve the connection with southern localities., he said.
He underlined the need to set a specific schedule for thecompletion of the Belt Roads No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 to facilitate the city’stransport connectivity./.
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