The HCM City - Long Thành – Dầu Giây Expressway. Bình Phước Province wants permission to start an expressway project linking HCM City with Bình Dương and Bình Phước provinces. Photo thanhnien.vn

HCM CITY — Bình Phước Province has asked the Government for permission to carry out an investment project for the HCM City – Thủ Dầu Một – Chơn Thành expressway.

The expressway will connect HCM City to Bình Dương Province’s Thủ Dầu Một City and Bình Phước’s Chơn Thành District. It will be 68.7 kilometres long, and have six non-stop lanes and 4 lanes on the side for urban vehicles.

The first phase of the project will cost more than VNĐ24.2 trillion (US$1.06 billion) under a public-private partnership model. The State will pay slightly less than half of it.

When finished, the expressway will boost connectivity among provinces and cities that are part of the Southern key economic zone.

Bình Phước People’s Committee has asked HCM City and Bình Dương to assist and help identify each region’s financial responsibility for land clearance.

The province has also instructed relevant authorities to finish their procedures and paperwork within August to submit to the Prime Minister and the National Assembly.

The project is slated to be carried out in the 2021 – 2025 period. — VNS