Urban Railway Project - Started construction in February 2008

Some images of the "Urban Railway" project:

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board (Management Board), the Long Binh Depot construction item (Long Binh ward, district 9) with a scale of 28 hectares will in the future become a repair and maintenance center, material warehouse and warehouse. training center, started construction in February 2008.

The Urban Railway construction contractor has completed 70 percent of the construction volume. For the three main packages of the Urban Railway project, including the 2.6 km long underground metro section from Ben Thanh to Ba Son, the 17.1 km long elevated metro section and tracks and carriages, Ms. Tran Thi Anh Nguyet - Deputy Management Board, said that in February 2009, the bidding documents for construction and installation will be completed, then international bidding will be organized.

Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requests the authorities and People's Committees of districts 1, 2, 9, Binh Thanh and Thu Duc to urgently direct the compensation work and hand over the premises on time (before June 30, 2009). for investors of Urban Railway projects.

One of the biggest problems is that the section of the route is located within the Ba Son union enterprise campus.

According to the results of the recent working session of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and the General Department of Defense Industry, while waiting to relocate the entire factory to Ba Ria - Vung Tau (starting in 2010, completed in 2015), the factory Ba Son Enterprise still ensures its tasks, and will hand over enough land for the construction of metro line No. 1 in 2010 to avoid affecting the progress of the Urban Railway project.

Launch many other projects

On January 23, 2009, the Standing Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee signed and issued two Decisions 360 and 361 approving the results of direct bidding for the package "Survey consulting, investment project preparation" for two metro lines No. 3b and number 4.

For metro line 3b project (Ben Thanh - Hiep Binh Phuoc, Thu Duc), the joint venture of Southern Transportation Design Consulting Joint Stock Company (Tedi-South) and Bach Khoa Construction Consulting Joint Stock Company (BKC) was appointed by Ho Chi Minh City leaders as a consulting contractor with the task of consulting on surveys and setting up investment projects with an implementation time of four months, total contract value of nearly eight billion VND.

The bidding package for consulting, surveying, and planning metro line No. 4 (Ben Cat bridge - Nguyen Van Linh avenue) worth nearly 13 billion VND was assigned to Transportation Construction Investment Consulting Joint Stock Company (TRICC). -JSC) with an implementation period of 150 days.

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