The move came following the approval ofmaster plans for the Hanoi region and the development of Vietnam’shighway system, the newspaper said.
The ring road is planned torun through Hanoi and seven provinces including Hoa Binh, Ha Nam, ThaiBinh, Hai Duong, Bac Giang, Thai Nguyen and Vinh Phuc.
Itwill have 41 kilometres overlapping the Noi Bai – Ha Long, Hanoi – ThaiNguyen, Noi Bai – Lao Cai Highways and National Highway 3.
Total investment for the ring road is estimated at over 85.6 trillion VND (4 billion USD).
It is scheduled to open to traffic by 2020, with either two or fourlanes and will be expanded to four lanes on the entire route over thenext decade.-VNA