The investment divergent expressway must have at least 4 complete lanes
Investment in expressway routes in the divergent phase in the coming time must meet a minimum of 4 complete lanes, fully arrange emergency stopping lanes and synchronously invest in works serving exploitation.
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| A section of Mai Son Expressway - National Highway 45 is invested in a 4-lane scale, with no continuous emergency stopping lane. |
This is one of the notable information in official dispatch No. 3131/BTVT - KHĐT recently sent by the Ministry of Transport to the National Assembly Delegation of Binh Phuoc province to respond to the petition sent by voters of Binh Phuoc province after the 6th National Meeting. The XNUMXth session involves phasing investment in a number of expressways.
According to the Ministry of Transport, in the Road Network Planning for the period 2021 - 2030, with a vision to 20501, expressways are planned in a complete phase with a scale of 4-10 lanes to meet transport needs. in the future, ensuring a long-term vision.
In recent times, the need for investment capital to develop traffic infrastructure in general and investment in highway development in particular has been very large while budget capital is limited, so investment phasing is the solution. Appropriate solutions, both ensuring compliance with planning, design standards, and transport needs in the immediate period, while also ensuring the ability to balance capital and to soon deploy the construction of many expressways to meet the needs of economic and social development needs.
The Ministry of Transport has consulted the experience of some countries around the world to consider investment phasing (road cross-section width) for some routes with low transport demand during the initial period of operation; For routes with high transport demand, investment has been made immediately on a complete scale such as Hanoi - Hai Phong, Dau Giay - Phan Thiet, My Thuan 2 bridge...
The expressways that have been put into operation in recent times all ensure quality, meet transport needs, promote clear effectiveness in socio-economic development, ensure national defense - security, and solve problems. Resolve congestion in large cities and contribute to reducing traffic accidents.
However, the operation of expressways with investment phasing scale still has some limitations such as: investment phasing with a 2-lane cross-section width, not arranging a median strip in the middle, potentially dangerous. unsafe traffic on 4-lane roads with intermittent emergency stopping strips that risk causing congestion in the event of an incident if not handled promptly; The exploitation speed is not high.
To overcome limitations in the operation and exploitation of expressways with divergent scales, enhance traffic safety, improve the speed of exploitation and investment efficiency of expressway routes, implement direction of the Prime Minister in Official Telegram No. 16/CD-TTg dated February 21, 02 and Document No. 2024/VPCP-CN dated January 140, 6, the Ministry of Transport has issued a document requesting localities to be assigned to do the work. The agency in charge of expressway projects reviews and reports investment plans to expand expressway routes with investment phasing so that the Ministry of Transport can synthesize proposals and report to the Prime Minister.
The Ministry of Transport has also developed Highway Design Standards, expected to be issued in the first quarter of 2024, in which regulations on the investment scale of the phasing phase need to meet at least 4 complete lanes, arranged Adequate emergency stopping lanes and synchronous investment in works serving operations such as monitoring systems, traffic control systems, rest stops... ensure convenience, safety, and increase speed during the process. perform mining.
In addition, the Ministry of Transport is accelerating the completion of investment procedures to expand some routes from 2 lanes to 4 lanes and from 4 lanes to 6 lanes.
“The Ministry of Transport submitted to the National Assembly for approval the Road Law at the 7th Session, which includes a mechanism to allow the expansion, renovation, upgrading and modernization of expressways in the form of PPP, type of BOT contract to Mobilize non-budget resources to invest in transport infrastructure," the Ministry of Transport said.
