Striving to open Ly Thuong Kiet extended road in June 2018

(Baonghean.vn) -Speeding up the progress of site clearance and construction, striving to open the extended Ly Thuong Kiet road to traffic in June 2018 is the content.Working session between the Provincial People's Committee and relevant departments and localities.

The project to build Ly Thuong Kiet Street (section passing through Hung Binh Ward, Vinh City) has its starting point intersecting with Le Loi Street and its ending point intersecting with Nguyen Van Cu Street.Approved for investment by Vinh City People's Committee in 2011. In 2014, the Provincial People's Committee approved the investment project proposal for construction.

The project is implemented under the form of a build-transfer (BT) contract. The investor is Nghe An Road Construction and Design Consulting Joint Stock Company. The length of the road is 1,056.34m, the construction boundary is 24m, of which the road surface is 12m, the sidewalk on each side is 6m. However, to meet practical requirements, the Provincial People's Committee agreed to adjust the cross-section scale of the road, widening the roadway from 12m to 15m, narrowing the sidewalk on each side from 6m to 4.5m; keeping the route planning intact.

Accordingly, the total number of affected households is 67 households (not including separated households), having to resettle with a recovered land area of ​​11,018m2 and 7 agencies and units affected with a recovered area of ​​13,532m2.². The cost of compensation and site clearance is about 133 billion VND (not deducting resettlement land and ANQP land).

Comrade Huynh Thanh Dien and related departments and branches inspected the Ly Thuong Kiet extended road project in March 2016. Photo: Archive

To provide new housing for the people, the Vinh City People's Committee has planned in detail the construction of a 1/500 scale park, parking lot, cultural house and resettlement plots in Vinh Phuc block, Hung Phuc ward. The total number of approved plots is 97. Of which, 49 plots and the parking area have completed site clearance.

Currently, the progress of approving the feasibility study report is slower than planned. At the meeting, the leader of the City People's Committee said that the biggest difficulty at present is the compensation for site clearance because the Ly Thuong Kiet road section passing through Hung Binh ward has a part of the project passing through the land of Battalion 682 of the Transport Brigade 971 - General Department of Logistics, the recovered area is 5,138m2.². To carry out compensation for land acquisition and clearance for this land area requires a lot of time because it is necessary to seek the opinion of the Ministry of National Defense and determine the land fund to exchange if implementing the land-for-land option.

At the meeting, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested relevant sectors to speed up the progress of site clearance and construction, striving to open the extended Ly Thuong Kiet road to traffic in June 2018. (Photo: Thu Huyen)

For Hung Binh Secondary School, the land to be recovered is the entire school yard, so the City People's Committee has a plan to move it to a new location. Currently, the project to build a new Hung Binh Secondary School in Vinh Quang block has been approved and allocated 12 billion VND in capital in the 2017 basic construction investment plan of Vinh City. The next procedures are being completed to select a contractor to implement the project.

After listening to the opinions of the relevant parties, Mr. Huynh Thanh Dien - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed: This is an important traffic project of Vinh City, the construction of the road is an urgent task to reduce traffic congestion on other streets in the city such as Minh Khai, Le Hong Phong. In addition, it is also necessary to expand and develop commercial services in the area where the road passes through.

In the past, although Vinh City People's Committee has been quite active, the progress is still slow. In the coming time, Vinh City People's Committee must actively participate, focus on directing early site clearance, clearly assigning responsibilities to each member, ensuring progress so that in June 2017, the contract with the investor can be signed, striving to hand over the site to the investor to implement the project by September 2017, especially the section through schools in Hung Binh ward must be completed before August 2017 to ensure safety for students.

The sectors, according to their functions and tasks, shall approve project items, creating favorable conditions for investors to implement the project as quickly as possible, ensuring that it will be opened to traffic on June 30, 2018 and completed and put into use in September 2018.

Thu Huyen