Research on expanding the eastern sections of the North-South Expressway to ensure efficiency

The announcement stated that in order to meet the needs of socio-economic development, ensure security and defense, gradually complete the infrastructure connecting economic and political centers, key economic regions and implement the policies of the Party, the National Assembly and the Government have deployed investment in the Eastern North-South Expressway project, which has so far completed and put into operation about 1,200km.

However, the exploitation process has some shortcomings due to the limited scale of 2-lane or 4-lane highways such as: Potential risks of traffic insecurity, traffic congestion, traffic accidents, not meeting the needs of economic development in the condition of forecasted traffic volume tending to increase due to changes in economic growth targets in the current conditions and National Technical Regulations on highways are issued.

Therefore, the Deputy Prime Minister agreed in principle with the proposal of the Ministry of Construction on studying the expansion of the eastern sections of the North-South Expressway to overcome the above limitations.

The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Construction to preside over and coordinate with ministries and agencies to urgently develop and complete the dossier to submit to the National Assembly at the 9th session of the 15th National Assembly (phase 2 in June 2025), striving to start construction of a number of component projects in December 2025.

In particular, the Deputy Prime Minister noted: Develop specific principles, criteria, and conditions to clearly identify the subjects and scope of expressway sections that need to be fully invested in expansion; ensure efficiency, suitability with transportation needs, and the ability to balance investment resources. The expanded investment sections must ensure the scale according to the planning, meet the correct standards, facilitate the construction process, avoid having to expand many times, and avoid wasting assets. At the same time, review and propose specific and special mechanisms and policies to speed up the implementation progress and mobilize resources; including specific mechanisms and policies that have been allowed to be applied on bidding, common construction materials, etc. Review and calculate fully and accurately the total investment and capital needs for each stage to serve as a basis for considering the ability to balance capital allocation.

The Ministry of Construction shall urgently preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Finance and relevant agencies to develop a plan to transfer toll collection rights for completed expressways, including calculating the transfer rights plan combined with upgrading and expanding assets according to the plan; report to the Prime Minister in May 2025.

According to VNA/Tin Tuc and Dan Toc Newspaper

Source: https://baoquangbinh.vn/kinh-te/202505/nghien-cuu-mo-rong-cac-doan-tuyen-cao-toc-bac-nam-phia-dong-bao-dam-hieu-qua-2226292/