Cần Giờ Bridge

Cầu Cần Giờ
CrossesSoài Rạp
LocaleCần Giờ District, Vietnam
Characteristics
DesignCable-stayed bridge
Longest span~3,400 metres (11,155 ft)[1]
Clearance above55 metres (180 ft)
History
Construction start~2022

Can Gio Bridge (Vietnamese: Cầu Cần Giờ), is a planned cable-stayed bridge to cross over Soài Rạp, a tributary of the Saigon River in Vietnam

Description

Planning and Design

In order to drive between the Nha Be district and Can Gio District in Ho Chi Minh City, motorists currently have to go through the Binh Khanh Ferry Terminal, which has been receiving increasing amounts of traffic and subsequent delays.[2] Trips across the Soai Rap river could take from fifteen to forty five minutes to cross a 1.2 kilometer span.[2]

Since 2007, there were discussions on replacing the Binh Khanh ferrys with a road cable-stayed bridge that would span the Soai Rap river.[3] In 2019, a design was chosen for a three kilometer, four-lane, cable-stayed bridge.[4] One of the bridge's pillars would be shaped similarly to mangrove trees as a reference to the Cần Giờ Mangrove Forest and with the bridge's railing to appear as waves to invoke Can Gio's seaside.[3]

Construction

It was announced to be built under a "Build-Transfer" model, with a budget of 5.3 billion VND, and construction scheduled to begin in 2020.[4] By 2020, the build-transfer model was reconsidered and a restructuring pushed the projected start date for construction to 2022.[3] The location of the bridge was announced to start at the intersection between 15B Street and No. 2 Street in Nha Be District’s Phu Xuan urban area and connect with Rung Sac, 1.8 kilometers south of the Binh Khanh ferry terminal in the Binh Khanh Commune of Can Gio District.[5]

Other projects have been presented as contingent on the completion of the bridge,[6] especially Cần Giờ's coastal tourism site project. The "Cần Giờ Tourism Urban Area" is a 2,870 hectare seaside development initiative that would connect in from the bridge.[7] By January 2021, concerns were growing about the effects of the project's delays on investment and economic development in the region.[8] In April, officials announced that the bridge would be a higher priority and committed 10 billion VND to the project's completion.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2021-11-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. 1 2 Online, Tuoi Tre (May 20, 2019). "TP.HCM xin đưa 2 phà lớn ở Vàm Cống về Cát Lái và Bình Khánh". TUOI TRE ONLINE (in Vietnamese). Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 "VIETNAM'S BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES JUNE 29". TienPhong News. June 29, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  4. 1 2 Trí, Dân (April 19, 2019). "TPHCM sớm kêu gọi đầu tư xây cầu Cần Giờ hơn 5.000 tỷ đồng". Báo điện tử Dân Trí (in Vietnamese). Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Work on Can Gio Bridge to start in 2022". The Saigon Times. June 23, 2020. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Cầu Cần Giờ có thiết kế hình cây đước". vnexpress.net (in Latin). March 5, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  7. ↑ "New Cần Giờ Bridge, coastal tourism sites approved". vietnamnews.vn. November 26, 2016. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Mong sớm khởi công xây cầu Cần Giờ". Báo Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). January 8, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2021.
  9. ↑ Mai, Hà (April 20, 2021). "Chuẩn bị triển khai cầu Cần Giờ". Báo Thanh Niên (in Vietnamese). Retrieved November 18, 2021.

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