Director of the department Bui Xuan Cuong yesterday said that Truong Son street is the only entrance road to the airport, so traffic jam has regularly occurred in the area.
Therefore, the agency has proposed the Ministry of Transport to open more entrances from Thong Nhat street in Go Vap district or some other positions in Truong Chinh and Pham Van Bach streets in Tan Binh district, Tan Son and Quang Trung streets in Go Vap.
At present, the city is listening to scientists’ opinions to seek the most feasible planning measure in and outside the airport. They will give opinions about directions which the city should open new gateways to the airport to conveniently connect with existing terminals.
Under a plan approved by the ministry previously, a new gateway to Tan Son Nhat Airport will be opened in Hoang Hoa Tham street, Tan Binh district. Still the agency said that the street was connected with many other streets and severely overloaded. It would be unfeasible to open a gateway there.
According to Mr. Cuong, many defense land plots have not been handed over for HCMC to implement projects to ease traffic jam in Tan Son Nhat Airport area. The Department of Transport has proposed the Ministry of Defense to ask relevant sides to soon hand over these land plots.
Statistics by the Transport Department show that over 30,000 vehicles are travelling to and from Tan Son Nhat Airport a day. Of the number, 22,000 are automobiles and 7,000 are motorbikes excluding vehicles of over 10,000 people working at the airport.
On the same day, Mr. Bui Xuan Cuong supplied the press with information about projects to solve traffic jam in the city this year.
The HCMC Department of Transport has completed lot of works since early this year. They comprise a Y shaped flyover from Truong Son street to domestic and international terminals of Tan Son Nhat Airport, Hoang Minh Giam-Nguyen Thai Son flyover branch and two branches of Nguyen Van Cu bridge.
From now until the end of this year, slew of other projects will be opened to traffic such as branch N1 of An Suong tunnel, Pham Ngu Lao-Nguyen Oanh branch of Go Vap crossroads flyover, two branches of Nguyen Tri Phuong bridge, an intersection in front of HCMC National University and My Thuy intersection.
There are 22 traffic projects around Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Right after site clearance is done, the agency will expand Hoang Hoa Tham, Tran Quoc Hoan and Hoang Minh Giam streets.
In addition, construction sides will speed up the progress of two flyover branches Nguyen Kiem-Hoang Minh Giam and Nguyen Kiem-Nguyen Thai Son to ease traffic jam in routes leading to Tan Son Nhat Airport.
