Urgently add items to ensure safety of Cam Lo - La Son expressway
Additional investment in infrastructure items to ensure traffic safety on the Cam Lo - La Son highway is expected to be completed by the end of March and early April, with an implementation cost of about more than 3 billion VND.
Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board (Ministry of Transport), the unit assigned to be the investor of the Cam Lo - La Son expressway, said that currently, construction work is still focusing on completing additional adjustment items on the infrastructure. floors to ensure traffic safety on the Cam Lo - La Son expressway.
Accordingly, the adjustment of additional items includes: Reflective spikes at the center of the 2-lane road, reflective targets on both sides of guardrails, additional soft poles on both sides of the median strip, and adjustment of paint markings. road center line... According to the leader of the Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board, these items are currently expected to be completed this week.
Also according to the leader of the Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board, the safety warning sign item will be constructed later because it must wait for production orders. However, the process of installing these signs will definitely be done this March at the latest.
With the emergency stop lane, the Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board is currently working with the authorities to conduct a survey and then begin construction.
"If the weather is favorable, it will be completed in March this year, or at the latest in early April. It is expected that additional investment in infrastructure items will ensure traffic safety on Cam Lo - La Son is about more than 3 billion VND," a representative of the Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board added.
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| The fact that there are many heavy vehicles "crawling" on the Cam Lo - La Son route is one of the reasons leading to many drivers overtaking recklessly, causing the risk of traffic accidents. |
Previously, on March 16, the National Assembly's supervision team on the topic "Implementation of Resolution No. 3/43/QH2022 dated January 15, 11 of the National Assembly on fiscal and monetary policies to support Supporting the Socio-Economic Recovery and Development Program and Resolutions of the National Assembly on a number of important national projects until the end of 01" had an inspection and working session with localities on the actual situation. Currently, the Ho Chi Minh Road project includes Cam Lo - La Son and La Son - Tuy Loan sections.
At the meeting, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Danh Huy said that the construction investment component project of the Cam Lo - La Son section belongs to the investment project to build a number of expressway sections on the North - South Eastern route in the phase The 2017 - 2020 period is decided by the National Assembly on investment policies.
Regarding the main cause of accidents that have occurred recently, it is often due to the driver's fault, such as: encroaching on the lane, overtaking without paying attention; not keeping a safe distance according to the instructions of the road signaling system on the route. In addition, accidents occur because the new road has only 2 lanes and no tolls yet, so vehicles (especially trucks and buses) all use this route instead of the old route. travel on Highway 1 to avoid toll stations, leading to overcrowding; The speed of heavy vehicles is only 30-35 km/h, causing inhibition and congestion for vehicles behind, leading to the risk of reckless overtaking...
According to Mr. Huy, the Ministry of Transport has directed the adjustment and reorganization of the road sign system in accordance with the actual traffic situation (additional signs; adjustment of road center lines from solid lines to dashed lines). with straight sections, ensuring visibility...). Organize vehicle counts to classify traffic to suit the actual traffic volume and nature of the vehicle flow; Regulating and dividing certain types of vehicles along National Highway 1 to avoid overloading the 2-lane route.
In the long term, the Ministry of Transport assigned the Ho Chi Minh Road Project Management Board to prepare a pre-feasibility study report on the investment project to expand the North-South Expressway east of the Cam Lo - La Son section with increased capital. Central budget revenue in 2023 and other legal capital sources.
At the same time, due to the complicated traffic situation on the route, the Ministry recommends allowing implementation in the form of emergency public investment projects prescribed in the Law on Public Investment (procedures for implementing project construction according to the Law on Public Investment). regulations of the law on construction for construction works under emergency orders) to be completed in 2025. In the second quarter of 2024, the Ministry of Transport issued National Technical Regulations on expressways, and basically there will be no more 2-lane divergent highways.
The Ministry of Transport also proposed that the Government and the National Assembly prioritize allocating capital sources to increase central budget revenue in 2023 and other legal capital sources to invest in expanding expressway routes that are in operation and invest at scale. diverging 2 lanes. Of which, the Cam Lo - La Son expressway has a total investment of about 7.000 billion VND.
Also at this meeting, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai directed that many serious traffic accidents have occurred on the Cam Lo - La Son expressway recently, requesting the Ministry of Transport to study methods The project ensures safety for people and vehicles when traveling on this route.
It is known that when establishing the Cam Lo - La Son expressway project, it is expected that there will be 4.578 vehicles/day and night by 2020; By 2025, there will be 7.545 vehicles/day and night; By 2030, there will be 12.751 vehicles/day and night... However, in reality, the current traffic on the expressway has reached 6.000 vehicles/day and night, approaching the forecast number by 2025 of 7.545 vehicles.
