Official dispatch No. 9101 dated November 21 of the Government Office stated: At the opening session of the 6th Session of the 15th National Assembly, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his opinion on early promulgation of highway standards in the first quarter of 2024 as proposed by the Ministry of Transport.
The current highway system in Vietnam still has many shortcomings.
Therefore, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha requested the Ministry of Transport to report to the Prime Minister on the construction plan, construction bases, international experience, and proposed draft framework of standards, before November 30.
Previously, in a telegram signed in September, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that in recent times, the Ministry of Transport has actively coordinated with ministries, branches and localities to vigorously implement projects to build important national transport infrastructure, initially achieving some encouraging results, contributing to the country's socio-economic development.
Of which, 8/11 component projects of the North-South Eastern Expressway in the 2017-2020 period have been put into use, increasing the total length of expressways nationwide to 1,822 km; starting construction of 12 component projects of the North-South Eastern Expressway in the 2021-2025 period; starting construction of the Khanh Hoa - Buon Ma Thuot, Bien Hoa - Vung Tau, Chau Doc - Can Tho - Soc Trang, Ho Chi Minh City Ring Road 3, Ring Road 4 of the Hanoi Capital Region...
However, there are still some problems related to investment in construction of traffic infrastructure such as: some expressways do not have continuous emergency lanes, operating speed is limited; some expressways have only 2 lanes; the arrangement and investment in construction of traffic intersections, especially the width and connection of expressways with the local traffic network to enter industrial parks, urban areas, tourism, and services are not reasonable; solutions to handle weak ground; research on the use of sea sand for infrastructure construction projects has not met the construction progress of key traffic projects...
To promptly resolve these problems, the Prime Minister requested the Ministry of Transport to urgently develop and promulgate the Expressway Design Standards under its authority as a basis for planning, designing, investing in construction and managing the expressway system and connecting intersections; as a basis for determining investment rates, mobilizing appropriate investment capital for expressway construction, ensuring publicity, transparency, efficiency, avoiding loss, waste and group interests. To be completed in October.
The process of developing the Standards requires studying international experience, summarizing the practice of investment in construction of expressway projects in recent times and ensuring that it is suitable to actual conditions in Vietnam; organizing to collect opinions from ministries, branches, localities, relevant agencies and experts and scientists.
The content of the Standards should pay attention to regulations on the number of lanes, cross-sections, medians, emergency lanes, design speeds, rest stops, etc.; principles for arranging and organizing scientific and effective intersections; width and design speed of intersections suitable for the speed of the highway to ensure convenient, safe and effective exploitation and operation, in accordance with the requirements and conditions of socio-economic development of localities...
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