A section of the East North-South Expressway Project component project has been inaugurated and put into operation. (Photo: Viet Hung/Vietnam+)
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The Ministry of Construction has issued a dispatch directing the Vietnam Road Administration and Project Management Units 6, 7, and Thang Long to enhance the management, operation, and exploitation of newly-opened expressways, ensuring traffic safety. They are also urged to promptly complete the remaining items to meet the schedule.
With great effort and determination to overcome challenges and accelerate construction progress, as of April 19, 2025, Project Management Unit 7 completed all items to open a 70km-long section (out of the total length of over 83km) of the Van Phong-Nha Trang Expressway Project.
By April 28, 2025, the Thang Long Project Management Unit and Project Management Unit 6 opened main expressway sections, including Bai Vot-Ham Nghi, Ham Nghi-Vung Ang, and Bung-Van Ninh, bringing efficiency to investment and meeting the travel demands of people during the April 30-May 1 holiday.
To ensure absolute safety for vehicles traveling on the newly-operated expressways, the Ministry of Construction requested the project management units to deploy sufficient forces to direct and guide traffic participants, especially at expressway entrances, and prevent motorcycles, non-motorized vehicles, and animals from accessing the expressways.
The investors coordinate with the Traffic Police Department and the Traffic Police Division of provincial police forces to strengthen forces and means, ensure traffic order and safety on expressways, guide rescue measures when cars break down and have to stop or when accidents occur, and strictly handle intentional violations of vehicles that do not meet the conditions for traveling on expressways.
The above project management units coordinate with relevant units to inspect the site, direct contractors and consultants to urgently review existing defects that may pose traffic safety risks, promptly complete and fix them (signs, indicators, guardrails, speed bumps, fences, etc.) according to the design dossier; update and adjust traffic safety items on the route (if necessary) to suit the reality.
Investors urge contractors and consulting supervisors to speed up the construction progress of the project’s remaining items (intersections, cross roads, collecting roads, slope protection, etc.) to put them into operation before June 30, 2025, as planned.
The Ministry of Construction requested the Vietnam Road Administration to strengthen inspection and supervision, timely support and guide, and handle violations; coordinate with investors and relevant units to promptly complete procedures to organize management, exploitation, and maintenance according to regulations.
Viet Hung
– 17:25 03/05/2025
