The Department of Transport (DOT) of Ho Chi Minh City has just proposed that the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City include in the investment priority plan the project of building a road connecting the Go Dua intersection to the Ho Chi Minh City - Chon Thanh expressway (section in Ho Chi Minh City) during the period. from now until 2030.
The Ho Chi Minh City - Chon Thanh expressway is nearly 55km long, connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the two provinces of Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc.
The starting point of the expressway connects to Belt 3 of Ho Chi Minh City, passing through Binh Duong. From this point, the path will be built to connect to Go Dua intersection (belonging to Belt 2 of Ho Chi Minh City), with a total length of nearly 9km.
Of which, 1.65km passes through Ho Chi Minh City, connecting from Go Dua intersection (Thu Duc City) along Binh Chieu Street to DT 743 to Binh Duong.
Ho Chi Minh City plans to spend 3,300 billion VND to invest in this 60m wide highway path, of which site clearance costs are about 1,660 billion VND.
The scale of this route has been updated in the General Planning Project of Thu Duc City in Ho Chi Minh City until 2040.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee also assigned the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport to prepare a pre-feasibility study report, proposing investment policies for this expressway section, for implementation in the period of 2024 - 2028.
Previously, in December 2023, the People's Council of Binh Duong province had a resolution approving the investment policy of the Ho Chi Minh City - Chon Thanh expressway section through the province, about 45.6km long. Total project investment is more than 17,400 billion VND, invested in the public-private partnership (PPP) method, BOT (build - operate - transfer) contract type.
Complete site clearance project of 60m, investment before phase one, 4 express lanes (especially the expressway section overlapping DT 743 has been invested in building 6 lanes). In phase 2 of the project, Binh Duong continues to fully invest in increasing the expressway from 4 to 6 lanes.
Currently, Binh Duong province is urgently completing documents for site clearance demarcation, feasibility study report documents, investor selection, signing BOT contracts... It is expected that Binh Duong province will carry out construction. expressway on September 2 this year, completed in 2027.
The 6.6km long expressway section through Binh Phuoc province has a total capital of 1,474 billion VND. Of which, the central budget capital is expected to be 1,000 billion VND, the rest is from the local budget, implemented from 2024 - 2026.
Currently, the bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Thu Dau Mot (Binh Duong) follows Highway 13 to Binh Phuoc with a distance of about 120km.
When deployed, the Ho Chi Minh City - Chon Thanh expressway will help increase transport capacity, trade goods and shorten travel time between localities.
