Construction workers complete work on two underground railway tracks of HCM City's Metro Line No. 1. (Photo courtesy of MAUR)
HCMCity (VNS/VNA) – Two final underground railway segmentsfor Metro Line No 1 in Ho Chi Minh City are being installed andwill be completed in two months.
TheHCM City Management Authority of Urban Railways (MAUR), the project’s investor,said that work on the two railway track segments began on November 9.
Thetwo segments are 660m long and 1.43m wide, and run parallel to eachother between the Opera House and Ben Thanh rail stations.
Around56 engineers and construction workers assigned to do the work are fullyvaccinated and strictly adhere to COVID-19 regulations.
TheMetro Line No 1’s underground railway system is 2.6km long, with threestations in the city centre. Facilities such as lobbies and ticket machines forthe Ba Son and Opera House stations have been completed.
Workon Ben Thanh Station is slated to be completed by the end of theyear. Ben Thanh, Metro Line No 1’s central station, will connect to three othermetro lines in the future.
Around88 percent of the work for the metro line had been completed as ofNovember 10. The line was originally expected to be finished by the end ofthe year, but the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected construction workand imports.
Themetro line is now expected to be completed by the end of 2023 orearly 2024, according to MAUR.
The43.757 trillion VND (1.9 billion USD) route, from Ben Thanh Market in District1 to Suoi Tien Theme Park in District 9, is 19.7km long and will have 14stations, three of them underground.
Themetro has been built with official development assistance (ODA) and fundsfrom the Japan International Cooperation Agency.
Ofthe total 17 imported trains from Japan, seven have been received.
Themetro line is the first of eight metro lines to be built in the city.
OnNovember 6, Hanoi’s first metro line opened for service, from Cat Linh in Ba Dinhdistrict to Ha Dong district. Many locals said they preferred to use themetro line over their personal vehicles because ofaffordability and less traffic congestion and noisepollution./.
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Construction workers complete work on two underground railway tracks of HCM City's Metro Line No. 1. (Photo courtesy of MAUR) 
