Traffic diversion on National Highway 1A, banning cars from passing Ca Pass from the afternoon of April 14

This afternoon (April 14), Road Management Area III, Vietnam Road Administration organized traffic diversion, not allowing cars to pass through Deo Ca. Vehicles choose 1 of 3 routes to travel in the North - South direction and vice versa. Traffic diversion time is from the afternoon of April 14 until the problem is resolved, ensuring safety conditions for traffic on National Highway 1A in the Deo Ca area.

Trạm Cảnh sát Giao thông Ninh Hòa, tỉnh Khánh Hòa không cho phương tiện vận tải nặng qua đèo Cả — Ninh Hoa Traffic Police Station, Khanh Hoa province does not allow heavy vehicles to pass Ca Pass.

Currently, the Bai Gio railway tunnel on the North-South railway line, passing through Dai Lanh commune, Van Ninh district, Khanh Hoa province, is experiencing subsidence from the top of the tunnel dome and is continuing to subside, with complicated developments. The Bai Gio railway tunnel intersects below with National Highway 1A in the Deo Ca area, affecting the safety of railway and road works and traffic safety in the area. The railway management unit is implementing a plan to overcome the subsidence problem in the tunnel.

While waiting for repairs, to ensure the safety of railway and road works and traffic safety for road vehicles, the authorities have stopped all vehicles (except 2-wheelers) from circulating on National Highway 1A through Deo Ca Pass, and cars of all types must travel through the Deo Ca tunnel.

However, some vehicles such as fuel trucks, trucks carrying toxic, flammable, explosive, dangerous goods, oversized vehicles... are not allowed to pass through the Ca Pass tunnel.

Road Management Area III announced the traffic diversion plan, for road vehicles not allowed to pass through the Deo Ca tunnel. These vehicles choose 1 of 3 routes. The 3 routes have in common that vehicles traveling on National Highway 1A when reaching the intersections with the horizontal National Highways will turn right in the Southwest direction.

Specifically, at the intersections with National Highway 19C in Tuy Phuoc district, Binh Dinh province; intersection with National Highway 25 in Tuy Hoa city, Phu Yen province; intersection with National Highway 29 in Dong Hoa town. Vehicles will follow the National Highways to the Southwest, then follow Truong Son Dong road, to the intersection with National Highway 26, they will continue their journey to the East to the intersection between National Highway 26 and National Highway 1A in Ninh Hoa town, Khanh Hoa province, continuing their journey to the South. Vehicles traveling from South to North will move in the opposite direction.

Hầm đường sắt Bãi Gió giao chéo với Quốc lộ 1A chạy phía trên. — Bai Gio railway tunnel intersects with National Highway 1A running above.

Mr. Le Quang Vinh, Director of Phu Khanh Railway Exploitation Branch, said that currently, landslides continue inside Bai Gio tunnel. The ban on road vehicles traveling on Ca Pass is to reduce vibrations, limit damage, and quickly restore the incident.

"The landslide section of both earth and rock has been concreted for a long time. Currently, we have worked with the local authorities, the Traffic Police Department (C-08), and the Ministry of Public Security to ban all types of cars from traveling on the Ca Pass road to reduce pressure on the tunnel shell, because this tunnel is located right below National Highway 1A," said Mr. Vinh.