The Ministry of Transport will set up a task force to inspect the quality of a World Bank-funded road project because of its quick deterioration.
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The team will have the task of identifying the causes for the quick deterioration of National Highway 48-2, as well as to submit a report to the ministry as to the solutions for it before the end of the year.
The project itself is part of a larger programme, named WB4, which aims at upgrading Vietnam's road network. National Highway 48-2 links Yen Ly, Dien Chau District with Nghia Thuan Commune, Nghia Dan District, in Nghe An Province.
The renovation of National Highway 48-2 was started on January 20, 2006, and scheduled for completion by August 2007. However, slow site clearance has hampered progress, and until the beginning of 2010 it was finished.
Now that it has been in use for more than a year, there are many parts of the road that have rapidly deteriorated.
The entire WB4 project is worth USD225.3 million, and aims at upgrading 10 national highways, as well as repairing 700km of road sectors across the country.
Dinh La Thang, Transport Minister, recently also selected four key projects for comprehensive inspection; these are the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Expressway (Ho Chi Minh City to Tien Giang Province), Thang Long Bridge (Hanoi), the Thang Long Highway (Hanoi) and the Cau Gie-Ninh Binh Highway (Hanoi to Ninh Binh Province).
