The inaugural ceremony for Trung Luong-My Thuan Highway (Photo: VNA) The51km long four-lane highway is built at a total cost of over 12.6 trillion VND(550 million USD at current exchange rate).
Its construction was first started in 2009 but was then delayed for almost 10years, with just 10 percent of the workload done by 2018. The project was thentransferred to the Tien Giang People’s Committee and the Deo Ca group in March2019.
An overview of Trung Luong-My Thuan Highway (Photo: vnexpress.net) Addressingthe event, Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh said the completion of thehighway has important meaning to socio-economic development in the region.
Heaffirmed that building a complete transport infrastructure network in thecountry in general and the Mekong Delta in particular is a major policy of theParty and State. The goal to 2025 is to increase the total length of thenational highway network to 3,000 km, and 5,000 km by 2030, he said.
TheMekong Delta will have about 400 km of highway by 2025. After the Trung Luong-MyThuan, work on other highway projects such as My Thuan-Can Tho, Can Tho-Ca Mau,and Chau Doc-Tran De will be accelerated.
Followingthe inaugural, the highway will be open to traffic free of charge for 60 daysstarting 7:30 am April 30. During the period, the management company will maketechnical assessments before applying toll collection./.
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