Vietnam subway network gets approval
01 MARCH 2001
Plans for an underground metro system to serve Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City and neighbouring provinces has been approved by the city's chief architect.
According to the master-plan, the inner metro system will comprise the following routes: Northwest-Southeast (46.86 km long), Inner Belt (43.14 km), Tan Son Nhat (9.3 km), Hoa Hung-Hanoi Highway-Thu Thiem (21 km), Ben Thanh-District 2-District 9-Thu Duc (27.5 km), and the Bien Hoa-Binh Chanh-Hoa Hung (46 km). The network will comprise 13.7-m-wide underground routes and 11.7-m-wide elevated train routes.
The three metro routes given top priority are the 7-km Tan Son Nhat-Ben Thanh, which is expected to carry 1 million passengers a day and cost $316.5 million; the 6-km Ben Thanh-Binh Tay, which will run entirely underground, cost $395 million and service 900,000 passengers a day; and 8.5-km Binh Trieu-Sai Gon Railway Station routes, which is an elevated train route costing $220 million and will carry 800,000 passengers per day.
Construction of these underground and elevated train routes will cost $2.65 billion. Work on the network is expected to be under way by 2005, with a feasibility study for construction of the first of these routes to be conducted
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