VietNamNet Bridge – Around 1,000 trees on Pham Van Dong Street in Ha Noi’s Cau Giay District will be cut down, 158 moved, and 142 pruned for the expansion of Ring Road 3.

Around 1,300 trees on Pham Van Dong Street in the capital city’s Cau Giay District will be affected by the Ring Road 3’s expansion project.

The trees are expected to be cut and pruned before September 30, according to the construction plan of the road.

Speaking to online newspaper Zing.vn on Wednesday, Pham Van Duan, deputy director of the Ha Noi Traffic Construction Project Management Board, said the board inspected the trees between April 18 and 20.

Around 986 of the 1,300 trees are nacre trees of 0.4-1.2m diameter, 38 are dracontomelon duperoanum trees, 65 are blackboard trees and 11 are flamboyant trees, he said.

The Ha Noi Green Tree and Park Company will be in charge of cutting, moving and pruning the trees, Duan added.

It will be tough to complete the process before September 30 as the city’s construction department has not yet given the company permission to go ahead with the task, he said.

The Ha Noi People’s Committee started the Ring Road 3 expansion project last October. The extended stretch of the road, from the south end of Mai Dich flyover to the south end of Thang Long Bridge, will be 5.5km long, 56 to 93m wide and will have six traffic lanes, two of which will accommodate mixed traffic.

The project costs VND3 trillion (US$136.5 million), and requires 392,000sq.m of land to be acquired and 796 households and 55 office buildings to be cleared. 

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