(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung hailed efforts of the Ministry of Transport and the management board of the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay highway project at a Sunday ceremony in Dong Nai province to open the highway to traffic. He urged the relevant ministries, agencies, and companies to soon complete the project’s auxiliary works to ensure the highway’s operation at its highest capacity.

The Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay highway opens to traffic on Sunday, February 8th, 2015. Photo: VOV

The highway, the most modern in Vietnam, has a total length of 51 km with four lanes and allows a maximum speed of 120 km/hour. The highway is expected to boost local socio-economic, tourism, and service development, contribute to ensuring national defense and reducing traffic congestion, accidents, and environmental pollution as national highway 1A connecting Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai province has been overloaded.