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The Ho Chi Minh City Metro (HCMC Metro, Vietnamese: Đường sắt đô thị Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh) is a rapid transit system in Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city in Vietnam. The system currently consists of one operational line, Line 1 which opened on 22 December 2024 from Bến Thành Market to Eastern Bus Terminus. Additional ...
Line 2 is a under construction rapid transit line of the HCMC Metro, Vietnam. [2] [3] Line 2 is the city's second metro line, and will connect District 1 and District 12. [4] The construction's phase 1 began in February 2024, with an expected completion date of 2030. [5] [6] [7] The project length is 11.3-kilometer (7.0 mi) long with eleven ...
Line 1 or also known as Bến Thành – Suối Tiên Line is a rapid transit line of the HCMC Metro, Vietnam. [1] Line 1 is the city's first metro line, and the first underground metro line of the nation, connecting District 1 , Bình Thạnh and Thủ Đức City .
Other lines to be built according to the 2001 plan included a 27.5-kilometre (17.1 mi) line connecting Bến Thành Market to Thủ Đức District, via Districts 2 and 9, similar to (but distinct from) Line 1 of the 2007 plan, and a 16-kilometre (9.9 mi) line from Hòa Hưng in District 10 to Bình Chánh District.
Rail transport remains relatively underused as a mode of transport in Vietnam. While road transport dominates the transport sector by far—accounting for 65% of freight moved as of 2006—rail transport accounted for only 4% of freight transportation in 2008, and 5% of passenger transportation, leading it to be considered the "least relevant" of all modes of transport in the European Union's ...
The Compagnie française des tramways de l’Indochine (CFTI) began tram services in Saigon in 1881, using cars towed by a steam locomotive designed by Deauville on a 0.5m gauge line. [28] The system went bankrupt in 1896, but the system managed to survive using 14 new cars (trailers and locomotives) that CFTI ordered from Borsig , Germany ...
High Tech Park station (Vietnamese: Ga Khu Công nghệ cao) is an elevated Ho Chi Minh City Metro station on Line 1. Located opposite Saigon Hi-Tech Park , the station opened on 22 December 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Ho Chi Minh City–Loc Ninh line, along with a new Mu Gia–Vung Ang line, would permit new international railway links to Cambodia and Laos, respectively. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The metric lines are able to speeds up to 140km/h (130km/h used in Taiwan metric railways), and 160km/h with pendular trains (done in New Zealand), depending on curve radius ...