Vinh City strives to remove infrastructure bottlenecks and reduce traffic congestion.

Efforts to reduce traffic congestion

In recent years, to beautify the city and reduce traffic congestion,Vinh cityThere have been many solutions to upgrade traffic infrastructure and renovate key intersections. Specifically, along with the continuous campaign to deal with the situation of encroachment on sidewalks, roadsides, and curbs for business purposes, the city has implemented sidewalk trimming on some streets with wide sidewalks to make parking lots; opened dozens of right turns at major intersections running along and across the city.

Construction of a new hard median strip after trimming flower beds and boulevards to widen Tran Phu Street and recently Phan Dinh Phung Street. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Next, the city proposed that the Road Administration Department II adjust and expand Tran Phu and Phan Dinh Phung streets, making this route more open, thereby serving the travel needs of people on these two main streets. In addition, in order to overcome the limitations of provincial traffic planning, the City People's Committee has developed a parking lot network plan for each ward, commune and hamlet, accordingly, orienting each area to have a parking lot and gradually encouraging the development of this type of service.

The Le Mao extended road has only been constructed for 1 km out of a total of nearly 5 km, but it has created a highlight for Vinh city. If completed, it will reduce traffic congestion in the inner city area. Photo: Nguyen Hai

However, with the rapid development of personal vehicles, the city is currently facing many difficulties and has no real solution to handle the increasingly serious traffic congestion during rush hours as it is today.

Vinh City Traffic Police regulate traffic during rush hour every day. Photo: Nghe An Newspaper

Focus on removing bottlenecks and bottlenecks in infrastructure

Sharing with reporters at the press conference in early 2023, comrade Tran Ngoc Tu - Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee frankly said: Currently, the city is having a headache with this situation, technical measures or solutions to reduce congestion during rush hours are only short-term. Due to limited investment resources, expanding planning and investing in new traffic routes in the inner city area is very difficult. The most likely thing at this time is that the city, with the support of the province, will focus on completing key traffic projects, extending a number of streets that have been planned and implemented for many years but are unfinished. Specifically, the projects of Le Mao Street extension, Tran Hung Dao extension, Ly Thuong Kiet extension...

The proposed location for the construction of the extended Tran Hung Dao street is in the Cua Nam fish lake area, Cua Nam ward, running across the Vinh river and connecting to Ho Huu Nhan street. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The first is the Tran Hung Dao extended road project, connecting from the starting point of Cua Nam Fish Lake to Vinh bypass about 5km. According to the representative of Cua Nam Ward People's Committee, phase 1 will be constructed in 2023 and 2024 from the starting point of Cua Nam Fish Lake across Vinh River to Ho Huu Nhan Road. Currently, the ground has been basically completed and construction can begin in 2023.

If this route is completed early, it will be quite convenient for vehicles from National Highway 46 and Vinh station to enter the communal house area west of Vinh market and Pham Hong Thai street to go to the southern bus station and Vinh bypass. At the same time, to the north, the city will clear the bottleneck at the end of Truong Chinh street through Le Ninh street to the 72m Vinh - Hung Dong street. If completed, large vehicles entering Vinh station, Vinh market or going to Hung Nguyen will go through Le Ninh street, reducing the load on Mai Hac De - Le Loi - Quang Trung street.

(Representative of Cua Nam Ward People's Committee shared)

The end of Truong Chinh Street connecting to the 72m Vinh - Hung Dong Street via Le Ninh Street has not been cleared yet, so it is still a bottleneck every time a train passes through and rush hour ends. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The second key traffic project is the extended Le Mao road, the section from the former 6-way gas station goes straight to Vinh bypass road, in which the section from the 6-way gas station to the gate of Vinh Tan New Urban Area project was constructed under BT form and has been completed. However, the remaining section from the gate of Vinh Tan New Urban Area to Vinh bypass road has been blocked for the past five years due to the lack of land clearance and capital allocation for construction.

Le Mao Street extending to the gate of Handico 30's new urban area in Vinh Tan ward was forced to stop because the site clearance was not completed and waiting for capital arrangement. Photo: Nguyen Hai

According to Vinh City Land Fund Development Center, Le Mao Street is extended to about 3 km, including 2 packages, of which 1 package of 384m is public investment so the project documents must be adjusted and 1 package will be constructed together withVinh River upgrading and improvement projectfunded by the World Bank. Currently, the project has been allocated medium-term capital for the period 2023 - 2024, but the biggest problem is resettlement arrangements for over 20 affected households in this area.

Construction of a resettlement area in Phong Hoa hamlet, Hung Hoa commune to arrange accommodation for households evicted for the extension of Nguyen Sy Sach road to connect with the road along Lam River. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Finally, the main traffic route, contributing to reducing congestion on Le Loi, Le Hong Phong and Nguyen Van Cu streets, is the extended Ly Thuong Kiet street. This project starts from the current Ly Thuong Kiet street through Hung Binh to connect with Nguyen Van Cu street. Mr. Cao Quang Trung - Director of the Provincial Land Fund Development Center - the unit hired to consult on site clearance for this project said: This is a new route, site clearance involves many affected organizations and individuals, so implementation is very difficult. Currently, the unit is preparing resettlement, compensation and support documents for 71 households and organizations.

Although it is determined that there will be many difficulties, the city is focusing resources and is determined to speed up the project's progress. Currently, the Center has submitted compensation, support and resettlement plans for 8/29 households subject to resettlement according to regulations; publicly announced the draft compensation and resettlement plan for the remaining 21/29 households; specialized departments have advised the City People's Committee to approve compensation and support plans for 15/42 households not subject to relocation...

(Representative of Vinh City Land Fund Development Center said)

Mr. Nguyen The Anh - Deputy Director of Vinh City Construction Investment Project Management Board added: Along with focusing on implementing site clearance on Ly Thuong Kiet Street in Hung Binh, the projectNguyen Sy Sach Street extensionhas reached the final step of clearing the land and constructing a road connecting the starting point of Tan Hung hamlet (Hung Loc) to the Lam riverside road in Hung Hoa. If the extended Nguyen Sy Sach road is completed and opened, it will create a highlight and develop a new space for the city's urban infrastructure./.