Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha agreed with the proposal of the Ministry of Finance and VEC on implementing the project according to procedures for emergency projects to start construction on August 19, 2025.
The Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh Expressway expansion project has a total investment of more than VND 16,386 billion, the project implementation period is from 2025 to 2027.
Expanding the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh expressway to 8-10 lanes, connecting Long Thanh airport, will shorten time, reduce transportation costs, and make it easier for people to travel from Ho Chi Minh City to Long Thanh airport and vice versa.
Why is this an emergency project?
Because Long Thanh airport is about to be completed, the connecting routes from Ho Chi Minh City to the airport are still unfinished.
The Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh Expressway is the main route connecting Ho Chi Minh City to Long Thanh Airport, but currently, this route is too risky.
In the article Long Thanh Airport Exploitation, the fear of passengers being stuck on the highway published on April 15, 2025, Lao Dong Newspaper analyzed that traffic congestion on the highway lasting for kilometers and hours, causing "victims" to suffer because of work delays. In the near future, when Long Thanh airport is put into operation, passengers traveling from Ho Chi Minh City will have more concerns about traffic jams when traveling from home to the airport.
From the center to Tan Son Nhat airport, if there is traffic congestion, passengers can get off the taxi to take a motorbike taxi, or even walk. If you go to Long Thanh airport and get stuck on the highway, it will be unfavorable.
Not only go from Ho Chi Minh City to Long Thanh airport, there is also a direction from Long Thanh airport to Tan Son Nhat airport. For passengers in transit, it is necessary to ensure travel time, if they cannot be proactive about time, passengers will not feel secure about booking tickets.
Therefore, the convenient road and railway traffic routes connecting from the center of Ho Chi Minh City to Long Thanh airport will shorten and stabilize the time.
If they cannot meet traffic requirements, passengers are afraid of not daring to book tickets to and from Long Thanh airport, airlines with few passengers will not open routes, and the airport will not operate effectively.
Due to the urgent situation, the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh expressway expansion project must be urgent, expected to be completed after only 2 years of construction and must be completed.
However, expanding the expressway is not enough, there are still very important bottlenecks, which are the two ends of the expressway, the An Phu beginning in Ho Chi Minh City and the entrance at the end of the Long Thanh expressway. If these two buttons are still "bottlenecked", then no matter how many lanes the expressway is expanded to, it will be useless.
