People dig road embankment worth over 100 billion to get land to plant seedlings

Recently, many people traveling through the road connecting National Highway 4B with National Highway 18C in Tien Yen District ( Quang Ninh ) were surprised to see many people using shovels, shovels, sacks... to dig up the soil on the slope of this road.

On the morning of March 7, Giao thong Newspaper reporters traveling on the above mentioned route also saw many people digging and shoveling soil on the road's slope.

As a result, many points of the slope were deeply gouged, creating a "frog's jaw", causing soil and rocks from above to fall onto the road at any time, especially during the rainy and stormy season, posing a potential risk to traffic safety.

Image of a group of people "carefreely" digging up the embankment of the over 100 billion VND road connecting National Highway 4B with National Highway 18C in Tien Yen district to take land on the morning of March 7.

A young man was busy shoveling soil into small sacks and told Giao Thong Newspaper reporters that he was taking this soil to grow seedlings.

"My house is a few kilometers away. The soil here is very good, suitable for growing seedlings, so I took some to plant trees," said the young man.

A point on the slope is deeply gouged, risk of landslide, rocks falling onto the road.

Continuing further into the route, Giao thong Newspaper reporters saw a group of people digging and removing soil from the slope and then pouring it into small sacks. Nearby was a pickup truck for transport.

When asked why they dug into the road slope like that, one of the group said that they took the soil here to grow seedlings and did not foresee the consequences of digging into the road slope.

A resident is digging the road embankment to get soil.

Talking over the phone with a reporter from Giao Thong Newspaper on March 7 about the current situation of the road being dug up to take land from the slope, a leader of Tien Yen District People's Committee said that they will inspect and propagate to people to stop this behavior.

It is known that the road connecting National Highway 4B with National Highway 18C located in Yen Than commune, Tien Yen district was started on December 21, 2018 and completed, put into use on December 15, 2020 and handed over to Tien Yen district People's Committee for management.

The consequences of digging the soil to bring back seedlings have created "frog jaws" on the road slope.

The route is 3.2km long according to the standards of grade IV mountainous roads, with a total investment capital of 100 billion VND from the Quang Ninh provincial budget and invested by the Quang Ninh Provincial Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board.

The purpose of the road construction is to reduce traffic volume and shorten the transportation route from National Highway 4B to National Highway 18C to the Hoanh Mo border gate area, Binh Lieu district.

When the route is put into use, it will shorten the distance from National Highway 4B to National Highway 18C to Binh Lieu border gate by nearly ten kilometers.

Recently, during the rainy and stormy season, the slope of the road has had many landslides and slides, posing a potential risk to traffic safety, causing the authorities of Tien Yen district to spend a lot of money to handle.

Therefore, the current act of digging up the slope to get soil for planting seedlings has seriously harmed the safety of the road, so local authorities need to soon have effective solutions to prevent this act.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/quang-ninh-dan-dao-taluy-duong-hon-tram-ty-de-lay-dat-trong-cay-giong-192240308182212708.htm