The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board has just sent an urgent dispatch requesting the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to assign tasks and allocate capital to prepare for investment in two metro projects No. 1 and No. 2 connecting Binh Duong (old) to Ho Chi Minh City.
According to the Urban Railway Management Board, the State Appraisal Council completed the appraisal of the pre-feasibility study report for metro line 1 on June 22 and submitted it to the Government .
On June 26, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha assigned the Minister of Construction , on behalf of the Prime Minister, to sign the Government's submission to the National Assembly.
This metro line starts at station S1 in the center of Binh Duong ward (Binh Duong new city), the end point connects to Suoi Tien bus station of Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien metro, and shares Long Binh depot, with a length of more than 29km, the whole is elevated with 17 stations. The total estimated investment for this project is 46,725 billion VND.
Metro Line No. 1 connecting Binh Duong New City to Suoi Tien Bus Station of Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien Metro has had its pre-feasibility study report completed by the State Appraisal Council. (Photo: Luong Y)
Metro line 2, starting from Thu Dau Mot and ending at Hiep Binh ward (former Hiep Binh Phuoc), with a total investment of about 50,425 billion VND, was also appraised by the Internal Appraisal Council of Binh Duong (former) at the end of June and reported the results.
This line also has a depot shared with Ho Chi Minh City metro line 3 at Hiep Binh, 21.8 km long with 13 stations all elevated like line 1.
According to the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board, metro line 1 has not yet been submitted to the National Assembly, and metro line 2 has not yet completed the procedure for submitting an investment decision. However, the National Assembly recently passed the Railway Law 2025, adding a number of specific and special mechanisms and policies for investment in railway development, including urban railways.
According to the new regulations, for local railway projects following the TOD urban development model, the provincial People's Committee has the authority to organize the preparation, appraisal, investment decision and adjustment decision according to the same order and procedures as group A projects, managed by the locality according to relevant laws.
When applying the new regulations, both projects do not have to make investment policy decisions.
The Urban Railway Management Board proposed that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assign the task of organizing the investment preparation work for the two above-mentioned projects. At the same time, it proposed that the Department of Finance advise the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to submit to the People's Council to arrange the medium-term public investment plan for 2021-2025 and 2025. The Urban Railway Management Board proposed to propose 10 billion VND for each project to prepare for investment.
According to the plans approved by the Prime Minister, after the merger, Ho Chi Minh City will have an urban railway network of about 1,012km. Of which, the old Ho Chi Minh City area has 12 routes, the Binh Duong area has 12 routes and Ba Ria - Vung Tau has 3 routes.
However, experts say that in the re-planning of the new Ho Chi Minh City, the city needs to reconsider the urban railway system. Except for the existing Ho Chi Minh City, the remaining areas only need to invest in "backbone" railway lines, i.e. main connecting lines, to promote investment efficiency.
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