(VOVworld) - Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Transport plans to build a road parallel with Cong Hoa Street in Tan Binh district in an aim to reduce traffic congestion around Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Traffic gridlock at Cong Hoa Street in Tan Binh District. (Photo: baogiaothong.vn)

The six-lane road would be 4.3 kilometres long and run parallel with Cong Hoa Street, extending from Tran Quoc Hoan Street and connecting to Cong Hoa Street at a section near Truong Chinh Street. The road is expected to cost more than  60 million USD.  The city’s Urban Traffic Management Unit No 1 is working closely with agencies under the Ministry of Defence on the design of the project. In addition, a new airport terminal with a capacity of 10 million passengers a year will be built on Hoang Hoa Tham Street in Tan Binh district to ease traffic at and around the country’s busiest airport.