(PLO)- A unit proposed to build a metro line running along the canal from Tan Son Nhat Airport – Nhieu Loc Thi Nghe canal – to the center of Ho Chi Minh City, which could save up to 40,000 billion VND.
Recently, Thach Ban Park Joint Stock Company sent a document to Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh proposing changes to the metro system planning in Ho Chi Minh City. Specifically, this company proposed to build a metro line running along canals to save money.
According to Thach Ban Park Joint Stock Company, currently in the metro planning, there is no metro line connecting directly from Tan Son Nhat airport to the city center and in the planning there is a monorail line 4B connecting to metro line 4 to Ben Thanh station. However, with a monorail line 4B having 4 stations and located close to Tan Son Nhat airport, building a depot is not simple, passengers from the airport moving to the train will not be convenient.
The company also pointed out that some metro lines are not feasible because they pass through heavily flooded areas. For example, line 3A (Ben Thanh – Tan Kien); Nha Be area of line 4 (Thanh Xuan – Hiep Phuoc Port Cluster); line 6 (Ba Queo – Phu Lam roundabout).
[Thach Ban Park Joint Stock Company believes that building a metro line along canals can save 40,000 billion VND. Photo: NGUYEN TIEN]
At the same time, Thach Ban Park Joint Stock Company said that the planning of the Ho Chi Minh City metro system has not taken advantage of the canal system, and there is almost no need to carry out site clearance.
From there, the Company proposed a belt railway with AGT (Automated Guideway Transit) self-driving trains – metro running along the canals.
The route is as follows: Tan Son Nhat airport – Nhieu Loc Thi Nghe canal – to the city center, Nguyen Hue section – along Ben Nghe canal – Nguyen Kieu islet – Tau Hu canal to Dam Sen park, along Lac Long Quan street to Tan Son Nhat airport.
If the metro project is implemented along the canals, there will be almost no need for site clearance, and the construction cost will be only about 1/3 compared to the traditional metro project. The estimated construction time is only about 5-7 years, and after completion, it will solve the traffic congestion on the main traffic routes in the center of Ho Chi Minh City.
When building a metro line running along the canals, it can completely replace Line 6, Line 4B, Ground Belt Line 1, part of Line 5 and the entire Line 3A. This new train line will ensure operation in heavy rain and high tide conditions and can save over 40,000 billion VND, of which, the cost of land clearance alone has saved up to 33,000 billion VND.
Previously, Thach Ban Park Joint Stock Company proposed to build a metro line along the canal with a total length of 29.9 km and a total investment of about VND20,000 billion.
According to the company, the self-driving train on the canal will solve the traffic congestion in the central area and Tan Son Nhat airport, which is causing great damage to the economy, Ho Chi Minh City, about 6 billion USD/year.
The project is expected to be invested in three phases. Phase 1: Tan Son Nhat Airport – Nguyen Kieu Islet: 12.7 km running on Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe Canal.
Phase 2: Nguyen Kieu Islet – Ba Tang Bridge, District 8: 5.7 km running along the Doi Canal.
Phase 3: Ba Tang Bridge, District 8 – Hoang Van Thu and Ut Tich intersections: 11.5 km along Tan Hoa Canal, Lac Long Quan Street.
[Original article Làm metro chạy dọc kênh rạch, TP.HCM có thể tiết kiệm được 40.000 tỉ đồng published at plo.vn. Translation by Google Translate.]
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