Dong Nai Province authorities have announced plans to build a bridge over the Dong Nai River within three years to boost connectivity between Ho Chi Minh City and Long Thanh airport.
The Cat Lai Bridge would be 4.7 km long and cost around VND18 trillion (US$682 million), Ho Van Ha, the province’s vice chairman, said at a meeting held with Construction Corporation No.1 Joint Stock Company (CC1) to discuss building it to replace the ferry across the river, the province’s natural border with HCMC.
Construction would begin in 2026 and the province plans to open the bridge to traffic in 2028, and so relevant agencies need to finalize its details for the People’s Council to approve the investment plans, he said.
The bridge will begin on Nguyen Thi Dinh Street, 400 meters from the My Thuy interchange, and end at the Ben Luc–Long Thanh Expressway, now under construction and to go through Dong Nai, HCMC and Long An.
The bridge will be designed for maximum speeds of 80 kph, be 33.5 meters and have eight lanes and a vertical clearance of over 55 meters.
CC1 has proposed a public-private partnership with a combination of build–operate–transfer and build–transfer (BT) models funded publicly, a BT model or a BT model with the public funding in the form of land rather than cash.
Source: VN Express