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Street tolls rationally rearranged for developmental needs

Part 2: Suitable rearrangement

Update: 08-01-2019 | 15:17:48

Part 1: Active and creative infrastructure construction for traffic in Binh Duong

Recently, Binh Duong province has focused many resources to invest in building transport infrastructure, contributing to socio-economic development, making the province become a strong industrial development province of the country, in which the form of investment in the form of construction - operation - transfer (BOT) has brought into play the effectiveness in developing the provincial road system. However, with the current development of the transportation network, the means of finding ways to avoid traffic on other routes put pressure on the organization and flow of traffic and lead to some routes. Road appear full load, traffic jams. In order to have a basis for organizing and channeling traffic back to the key roads in the province such as National Highway 13, My Phuoc - Tan Van, DT743, good results need to be combined with the rearrangement of the collection stations. charges in the province.

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Suoi Giua toll collection station on National Highway 13 (Thu Dau Mot city). Photo: Phuong Le

Strictly comply with the provisions of law

In recent years, the province's socio-economy in particular, the southern key economic region in general has strongly developed, increasing the demand for traffic and transport through the province, creating great pressure. on the transport infrastructure system. In this situation, the province has implemented many solutions to invest in building and developing transport infrastructure systems, especially attracting resources outside the State budget. As a result, the transport infrastructure system of the province is invested to build, upgrade and expand, connect inside and outside the province but still cannot keep up with the speed of growth and development of vehicles in the area.

In addition, the Provincial People's Committee has directed functional units to implement many solutions to control and overcome traffic congestion but have not met the actual demand. For the investment in upgrading and expanding BOT projects in the province in the past time, it is ensured according to the legal documents of the State. The province also implemented socialization of resources for investment in infrastructure development for socio-economic development.

In order to facilitate the circulation and transportation of goods to serve development needs in the coming time, the province has assigned the Department of Transport - Transportation to study and propose to rearrange the location of toll booths to General rationalization for transportation networks. On that basis, the province has so far approved a plan to rearrange BOT toll booths in the direction of reducing toll booths and rationalizing in terms of organizing traffic flow.

Reasonable relocation of toll booths

My Phuoc - Tan Van road has been put into operation, the traffic volume is very high; together with the preparation of the route of My Phuoc - Bau Bang, the density of this road will continue to increase. In order to maintain the ability to exploit this route in the best condition, it is necessary to have a large budget to perform the management, maintenance, repair and maintenance (road surface, drainage, projection including lighting electricity etc.). Besides, the provincial road system which has been invested over 10 years is degraded, it also needs a large budget to maintain the capacity to exploit, while the budget source is arranged for road maintenance work.  In order to have funding for operation, maintenance and exploitation of this route, in the coming time, along with organizing and distributing traffic on the roads of DT743, Highway 13 ... Department of Transport - Transport of ants Proposing the Provincial People's Committee to consider setting up a toll booth on My Phuoc - Tan Van road.

 Le Thanh Tam, a container truck driver of a company in My Phuoc Industrial Zone, said that the My Phuoc - Tan Van route, when opened, facilitates faster transportation of goods. However, current congestion and traffic congestion on this route are happening more. Therefore, if you set up a toll booth and have to pay a reasonable fee for this route to be wider and more open, the drivers like you are happy to agree. Nguyen Thi Thuy, a resident of An Phu Ward, Thuan An Town, said: “I see that if I set up a toll booth on My Phuoc-Tan Van route, our people would agree, because of that money if be invested and settled publicly and transparently and used to invest in upgrading and expanding the route to serve the province's development process, people are happy to implement.”

Representatives of the Department of Transport and Transport said that the organization and distribution of traffic in line with the role of each line will contribute to minimizing the overload and traffic congestion in the province in the past time. In addition, the organization of arranging scientific fee collection positions to ensure the collection of right charges and at the same time, the related units have the funds to maintain the operation and effectively exploit the projects that have been used by enterprises. Investment such as My Phuoc - Tan Van, Duong DT746 road from Tan Khanh bridge to Ring road. Good implementation of this solution will create favorable conditions for the development of the transport network in the province, the open investment environment so the province will attract more investors to the province.

For the locality, it will reduce the burden on the annual budget in the maintenance and maintenance of the infrastructure of the roads invested in construction, upgrading and expanding from the resources of investors. In addition, contributing to reducing the annual budget expenditure of the province for channeling, organizing traffic, maintaining and repairing damaged roads because the vehicles "avoided" the toll booths caused. On the other hand, when the traffic is convenient and safe, it will limit and overcome traffic congestion in the province. In addition, the above methods also contribute to solving the needs and aspirations of businesses and people in daily life and production, reducing production costs of goods, shortening travel time. Along with that, help people and businesses choose appropriate transport routes, convenient for travel and living.

Reported by Phuong Le – Translated by Vi Bao

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