On January 29, leaders of the West Lake Management Board (under Tay Ho Ward People's Committee, Hanoi) had information related to the plan to expand roads around West Lake.
Mr. Tran Hieu, Deputy Head of the West Lake Management Board, said that the Hanoi City People's Council has preliminarily approved the investment policy for the investment project to renovate and promote the value of the West Lake area and the scenic traffic route along the lake.
This project is invested in the PPP public-private partnership method, a build-transfer (BT) contract type.
According to Mr. Hieu, during the project implementation, functional agencies will study using a plan that does not take into people's houses and does not require site clearance, and does not affect or disrupt people's lives.
The renovation and expansion of the road also does not fill or reduce the water surface area of West Lake.
Mr. Hieu emphasized that specialized agencies will study and use technical measures to expand the lanes around the lake, ensuring the original state of West Lake and not affecting the current water surface according to the project approved by the Hanoi People's Committee.
Previously, on January 27, the Hanoi City People's Council approved a resolution preliminarily agreeing on the investment policy of the project to invest, renovate, and promote the value of the West Lake area and the lakeside landscape traffic route.
The expected scale is about 575.6 ha, of which the area of West Lake is 520.9 ha (maintaining the current water surface of West Lake); land area is 49.7 ha (including other small lakes).
Regarding the road along West Lake, the city adjusts to expand and renovate the sections of Nhat Chieu street, Ve Ho street, Trich Sai street, Nguyen Dinh Thi street, Quang An street, Quang Ba street from 8.5 - 9.5m to 21-24m (road surface on each side is 7m wide; median strip is 2m wide; sidewalks on the residential side are currently 1-3m wide, sidewalks on the lake side are 5m wide).
Road sections through the current flower garden area will be expanded to ensure 7m of road on each side and 5m of sidewalk on the lake side to preserve the flower garden to the maximum, limiting the impact on the landscape of the area.
For Thanh Nien street, Quang Khanh street will maintain the current cross-section, renovate sidewalks, flower gardens, and parks.
Tu Hoa street, Yen Hoa street, Lac Long Quan street will maintain the current traffic cross-section and renovate sidewalks.
Square spaces, lakeside viewing platforms: Arrange 27 viewing platform locations around West Lake.
At the same time, 2 floating square locations are arranged: Van Cao square and Kim Nguu wharf square.
The city will also build landscape bridges including Nhat Chieu and Sam Cam bridges with an average width of about 10m.
In addition, Hanoi will also build 6 boat wharves around West Lake, including 3 main wharves and 3 auxiliary wharves. The land fund for development around West Lake, Hanoi will build: Four Seasons Flower Park, Dam Dong Park, Ben Chum flower garden, Thuy Su pond, commercial service works, underground parking lots, environmental protection works, landscape lighting, and outdoor shows.
The preliminary total investment is estimated at more than 30,000 billion VND, striving to complete the entire project in 2030 according to the public-private partnership PPP method - build-transfer (BT) contract type.
To serve the commencement of the above project, Hanoi will also start the initial component investment project to renovate and expand the Quang An road from Phu Tay Ho to Tu Hoa Street with a scale of about 3.4ha.
According to Hanoi, the above component project will have a total investment of more than 1,400 billion VND, implemented from the first quarter of 2026 to the second quarter of 2027.
