Started many years ago with the expectation of changing the infrastructure face of the western Hanoi area, however, up to now more than 10 years, many projects to renovate and upgrade Provincial Road 70 are still unfinished due to problems in site clearance.
Provincial Road 70 has many component projects. Although some sections have been completed, most projects are still slow to implement, lasting for many years, causing the traffic and environmental situation along the route to become increasingly messy.
In Tay Mo, Dai Mo, Xuan Phuong wards, many component projects have been approved by the Hanoi City People's Committee decades ago, but now there is still a risk of continuing to "miss appointments". Notably, some items under the Project to expand road 70, 1.2km long through Xuan Phuong and Tay Mo wards, have been completed but cannot be synchronously connected, and have been "covered in tarpaulins" for many months, causing the project to degrade even before being put into use.
In Tay Mo ward, there are currently two projects including: Project to build a part of Road 70 (section from Nga Bridge to the International Education Village Project area) and the road around the International Education Village passing through Tay Mo and Xuan Phuong wards. Due to the project being delayed for many years, this area has become a gathering place for soil, waste and domestic waste.
According to actual records, many items have been completed but not put into use, lacking maintenance and protection, so they have become "black spots" for waste and construction waste.
Similarly, the project to build the Cau Nga riverside road and part of road 70, 1.2km long, invested by the Hanoi City Traffic Construction Investment Project Management Board, is also delayed for many years. Currently, the road surface has been asphalted but has not been exploited, for more than 2 years it has become an open-air landfill interspersed with a construction machinery gathering point. Some temporary shops have also sprouted up in this area.
Meanwhile, the project section from To Huu street to road 70 extending through Dai Mo ward has been "motionless" for the past 10 years. Although the locality is restarting the project, the problems with site clearance have not been resolved.
Many road sections are not completed, causing people to live in dusty and muddy conditions. Corrugated iron fences are degraded, traffic is difficult, and local congestion often occurs.
At the Pham Tu - Xa La intersection passing through Ha Dong and Kien Hung wards, many inadequacies also exist due to slow project implementation. Although the road connecting Ring Road 3 to Road 70, 2.5km long, has been put into use since 2020, the road 70 overpass item has not yet been completed, creating a traffic "bottleneck" in the area.
The main reason identified is that many households have not agreed with the compensation and resettlement plan, causing the handover of land to be not synchronized.
Representatives of Dai Mo Ward People's Committee said that the difficulty in site clearance stems from problems with land consolidation and block consolidation for residential land that meets the conditions for existence, along with the situation of overlapping boundaries between adjacent projects.
In addition, some households do not agree with the compensation policy. Up to now, the ward has completed the recovery of the entire area of agricultural land; approved plans for 83/90 households of residential land with an area of 3,873.6m2. However, there are still about 5 graves at the end of the project that have not been relocated.
Identifying this as a key project, Dai Mo Ward People's Committee is focusing on removing bottlenecks in site clearance, arranging resettlement housing funds for people. It is expected that the resettlement and site clearance work will be completed in the second quarter of 2026 and strive to complete the project in the fourth quarter of 2026," said a representative of Dai Mo Ward People's Committee.
Representatives of the Kien Hung Ward Investment - Infrastructure Project Management Board also said that the recovered land area is not large but involves many households with complicated land use origins, most of which do not have legal papers or do not meet the conditions for compensation according to regulations.
In addition to site clearance problems, the slow relocation of technical infrastructure systems such as electricity, water supply, and telecommunications also affects the construction progress of contractors.
The prolonged delay not only causes serious traffic congestion but also increases investment costs, greatly affecting the lives of people in the western Hanoi area.
