According to the Hoa Binh Regional Project Management Board, the Luong Son - Xuan Mai connecting road project (phase 1) has a total investment of 999 billion VND, with a length of 7.6km.
The project started in September 2022, initially expected to be completed by the end of 2025. However, due to delays, the project's construction time was extended to the end of December 2026.
The joint venture of Long Thanh Transport Construction Joint Stock Company, Song Da Construction Investment Joint Stock Company and Hai Phong Transport Construction Joint Stock Company is the construction unit.
According to reports, currently the project has only handed over 4/7.6km of site. Contractors have constructed the roadbed, gravel foundation and drainage system along about 3.8km.
At the same time, deploying the item of bored piles for bridge No. 1. The actual value to date has reached about 160/472.61 billion VND, equivalent to 34% of the contract value.
Site clearance is identified as the biggest bottleneck of the project. The total recovered land area is about 34.75ha, affecting about 568 households, of which it is expected that 81 households will have to be resettled.
To date, functional agencies have only completed site clearance of about 16.63/34.75ha, reaching nearly 48% of the recovered area. Inventory work has been carried out with 474/477 households. The total amount of compensation and support has been paid to 279 households and 1 organization of about 110 billion VND.
According to the Project Management Board, many difficulties are directly affecting the project progress such as slow confirmation of land origin, incomplete land registration procedures for some households; obstacles to increased area compared to land use right certificates; some cases of encroachment on roads and streams.
In addition, 2 resettlement areas serving the project are still not completed. The resettlement area in Bui Tram village is under construction and is expected to be completed in May 2026, while the resettlement area in sub-zone 6 of Luong Son commune cannot be implemented due to continued site clearance problems.
The public listing of prolonged compensation plans, slow appraisal and approval, and lack of support mechanisms for adjacent garden land, residential land, and agricultural land in residential areas also cause many households not to agree to hand over land.
In the afternoon of May 25, Lao Dong Newspaper reporters' records at the construction site in Luong Son commune showed that at the locations where the site has been handed over, many machines and workers are urgently constructing, and some sections of the route have basically formed.
However, in locations where land has not been handed over, construction activities are slow, and many equipment have to stop operating due to lack of deployment land.
Representatives of Song Da Construction Investment Joint Stock Company said that the unit has mobilized a lot of machinery and manpower to the construction site but cannot maximize capacity due to small and fragmented handover sites. Many equipment have to wait at the construction site because there is no work to deploy continuously.
Ms. Bui Thi Van Anh (resident in Luong Son commune) said that the project was started many years ago, and is still unfinished, significantly affecting the travel of people in the area.
We hope the project will be completed soon so that traffic infrastructure is more synchronized, promoting socio-economic development in the locality," Ms. Van Anh shared.
Currently, the Hoa Binh Regional Project Management Board has sent a document to the People's Committee of Luong Son commune and the Land Fund Development Center to accelerate the preparation, appraisal, and approval of compensation plans. At the same time, soon complete the support mechanism for households with adjacent garden land and residential land and agricultural land in residential areas to remove site bottlenecks and ensure project progress.
