Deputy Minister of Transport Le Dinh Tho on Tuesday inspected the completion of the over VND11 trillion 66km-long La Son - Tuy Loan expressway. He directed relevant agencies to handle outstanding issues to bring the project into operation from the beginning of April 2022.

A view of the La Son - Hoa Lien section of the La Son - Tuy Loan expressway Photo: XUAN SON

Currently, the main traffic route of the project has been basically completed, only a few backlog work items such as frontage roads and barriers the amount of backlog work are still underway, Construction units are concentrating against time to complete them in the last days of March.

The State Inspection Council for the pre-acceptance test of construction works has already approved for the technical acceptance of the project.

It is known that the La Son - Tuy Loan expressway project has been carried out on the build-transfer (BT) form with a total length of 77.6km, as part of the 3,183 km-long Ho Chi Minh Highway which runs through 28 Vietnamese localities.

This is an important route running through mountains and forests, beginning at the La Son T-junction, Phu Loc District, Thua Thien-Hue Province, and ending at the intersection with the Da Nang-Quang Ngai landmark expressway in Tuy Loan Village, Hoa Vang District, Da Nang.

There will be a total of 36 overpasses along the expressway.

Once fully completed, the expressway will help expand the transport links amongst key central regional economic hubs, boosting the city’s socio-economic development, and ensuring closer links with other localities in Central Viet Nam, and around the country as a whole.

Reporting by THANH LAN –Translating by A.THU