Work started on July 15 on the expansion of a section of NationalHighway 1A running through the central coastal province of Ninh Thuan.
The 2.1 trillion VND (98.7 million USD) work is financed by theHo Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment JSC under thebuild-operate-transfer (BOT) model.
Passing through the provincial Thuan Bac and Thuan Nam districts, the section will be 37km long and 20.5m wide.
It is designed to have six lanes with a speed limit of 80 km and 60 kmper hour in non-urban and densely-populated areas respectively.
Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Ngoc Dong said once completed by 2015the project will help ease traffic accidents and promote local economicgrowth.
The province will do its best to facilitate theconstruction work, said Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Tran Xuan Hoa.
As the backbone of the nationaltransport system, National Highway 1A runs through half of the provincesand cities in the country, linking Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City andCan Tho.-VNA
The 2.1 trillion VND (98.7 million USD) work is financed by theHo Chi Minh City Infrastructure Investment JSC under thebuild-operate-transfer (BOT) model.
Passing through the provincial Thuan Bac and Thuan Nam districts, the section will be 37km long and 20.5m wide.
It is designed to have six lanes with a speed limit of 80 km and 60 kmper hour in non-urban and densely-populated areas respectively.
Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Ngoc Dong said once completed by 2015the project will help ease traffic accidents and promote local economicgrowth.
The province will do its best to facilitate theconstruction work, said Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Tran Xuan Hoa.
As the backbone of the nationaltransport system, National Highway 1A runs through half of the provincesand cities in the country, linking Hanoi, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City andCan Tho.-VNA
