From July 14, vehicles will be allowed to travel on the overpass on September 2 Street as part of the under-construction traffic infrastructure project at western end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge, the Da Nang Management Board of Traffic Construction Investment Projects said.

The progress of the traffic infrastructure project at western end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge is being accelerated.

Road users will be banned from travelling through the Duy Tan - September 2 streets, and Duy Tan - Nui Thanh intersections.

Instead, all kinds of vehicles are permitted to travel along the Nui Thanh - Tieu La (or Nguyen Son Tra) - September 2 – the overpass - September 2 - Phan Thanh Tai (or Binh Minh 6) - Nui Thanh route.

The whole project will be open to traffic not later than December 31, 2021 as per recent request of the municipal administration.

Covering an area of 131,521m² in the wards of Hoa Cuong Bac and Hoa Thuan Dong, Hai Chau District, the VND723 traffic re-arrangement project borders Binh Minh 6 Street to the north, 29 March to the south, the Han River to the east, and military agencies and residential areas to the west.

As planned, the billion traffic project will consist of 3 levels. The lowest level will be a 4-lane road tunnel taking Duy Tan under the busy junctions with Le Dinh Tham and the western end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge.

The upper level on ground will be a roundabout, whilst the highest level will be a 14m-wide 4-lane steel overpass over 2 September Street. There will also be two 6m-wide frontage roads at the both sides of the overpass.

In particular, the road tunnel will be fully equipped with ventilation, drainage, water supply, electricity, lighting and communications systems.

Once it is put into use, traffic project at the western end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge will significantly reduce the current traffic congestion at intersections nearby during peak hours, in a tandem with reducing the volume of traffic on roads leading to the Da Nang International Airport.

The development of traffic infrastructure at western end of the Tran Thi Ly Bridge is one of the city’s key projects which are of great significance to the local socio-economic development.

Over recent times, the city leaders have regularly assigned tasks and sent many delegations to the construction site to inspect and promptly give instructions to accelerate the progress of the project.

Reporting by THANH LAN- Translating by A.T