The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport is directing units to complete investment preparation procedures to start work on the Hoa Lien - Tuy Loan expressway, as part of the La Son - Tuy Loan section of the Ho Chi Minh Road in the first quarter of 2023.

The existing section linking Hoa Lien and Tuy Loan suffers lots of damage that needs repairing. Photo: THANH LAN

The implementation of this project will be added to the medium-term public investment portfolio for the 2021 - 2025 period.

As expected, the Ministry of Transport will approve the feasibility study report in August 2022 and implement the next steps in order to start the project in the first quarter of 2023.

As request, the Da Nang People's Committee should soon consider and approve the environmental impact assessment report and the policy of changing the purpose of using forests and forest land according to its competence.

As part of the The Ho Chi Minh Road project, the Hoa Lien - Tuy Loan section has a total length of about 11.5 km.

The expected starting point is at a location adjacent to the Hoa Lien intersection in the namesake commune and the ending point is adjacent to the Tuy Loan intersection in Hoa Nhon Commune, Hoa Vang District.

The main part of the project is built according to highway standards, with a design speed of 80 km/h, with a 4-lane divergent scale, a 22m-wide roadbed of 22m.

Preliminary total project investment is about VND 2,100 billion funded by the State budget.

Reporting by THANH LAN, NAM KHANH - Translating by A.THU