Ho Chi Minh City Invests 80 Transport Projects In 2017

Ho Chi Minh City will make 80 transport projects with total capital of VND39.263 trillion in 2017 to improve infrastructure and reduce traffic congestion.

On December 30th, HCM City Department of Transportation said that HCM City will mobilize all resources to make 80 traffic works and reduce traffic jams in 2017. In 80 projects implemented in 2017 50 investment projects with the budget of Ho Chi Minh City with the amount of VND8.417 billion.

Three investment projects with central budget capital are VND9.253 billion. Three ODA-funded projects worth VND9,440 billion and 24 projects funded by public-private partnerships with VND12,153 billion.

Specifically, HCM City will focus on completion of investment procedures to accelerate the progress and start the work of congestion prevention at Tan Son Nhat Airport, Cat Lai port, reducing traffic jams in the area. the center of Ho Chi Minh City and the gateway, the development of waterway transport to reduce road load.

Steel overpass is one of many solutions applied by Ho Chi Minh City to reduce traffic jams

At the meeting with the HCM City People’s Committee, Bui Xuan Cuong, Director of HCMC Department of Transportation, said that the traffic will be organized according to the area, correcting parking in the central area of Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City and traffic stream to prevent traffic jams.

In the short term, the Department of Transport to coordinate with the HCM City Police to focus on traffic jam at 37 points. Before the Lunar New Year, two important traffic works will be completed: the bridge over the Go May crossroad and the crossing of the intersection at the intersection of Go Vap district to reduce the congestion at 2 hot spots.

In early 2017, the Department of Transportation will launch a traffic information portal to help people capture and reflect infrastructure incidents and problems in the urban transport sector.

This site also provides people with online traffic maps integrated with utilities such as navigation, route guidance, parking search, hospitals, gas stations, public toilets … People can use the phone to find out the traffic conditions on the roads to select the proper traffic direction and look up other information.

Department of Transportation to coordinate with Ho Chi Minh City Police to solve traffic jam at 37 points.

Vice Chairman of HCM City People’s Committee Le Van Khoa said that the current situation of traffic jams is very serious. Therefore, in 2017 departments must immediately implement solutions approved by Ho Chi Minh City. In particular, the Department of Transportation must deal with 34 infrastructure projects in the program to reduce traffic jams.

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“The new East Bus Station will be completed by 2017. The Western Bus Station will be completed in 2018. The two bus stations will be relocated to the suburbs,” Khoa said.

Currently, in parallel with short-term solutions, TP. HCM is also accelerating the construction of many overpass projects, underground tunnels, road expansion … to solve the problem of the traffic jam.

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