Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)One of the three bridges will connect HCM City’s Thu Duc Cityand Dong Nai province’s Tam An commune, Long Thanh district. One will linksouthern HCM City with Dong Nai’s Nhon Trach district, and the other will replacethe existing Cat Lai ferry.
Work on the six-lane Cat Lai bridge is scheduled to start before2025. The other two bridges will be developed in the 2026-2030 period,according to a dispatch that the Dong Nai authorities sent to Ho Chi Minh Cityon March 8.
Dong Nai province is located on the eastern side of HCM City. The twolocalities are geographically divided by the Dong Nai, Long Tau, Dong Tranh andThi Vai rivers, but there are only two bridges connecting them. They are theDong Nai Bridge on National Highway 1A and the Long Thanh Bridge on the HCMCity-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway.
The two bridges are overwhelmed by a huge traffic load. The eight-lane Dong NaiBridge has a designed passenger car unit (PCU) of 96,000 per day, but it iscurrently handling 216,000 PCUs.
Similarly, the actual PCU recorded on the four-lane Long Thanh Bridge is65,000, while its designed capacity is 48,000./.
VNA
