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Construction of metro bridge in Vietnam's HCM City complete

Xinhua, September 30, 2016 Adjust font size:

Construction of the most important bridge in a project on building the first metro route in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City was complete on Friday, the municipal Urban Rail Management Board said.

Construction of the new bridge over Saigon River started in December 2013. Along with four other bridges, the Saigon Bridge, which is nearly 300m long and over 11m wide, will serve the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro route.

The 20-km metro route, running through Ho Chi Minh City's 1, 2, 9, Binh Thanh and Thu Duc districts and Binh Duong province's Di An district, is scheduled to open to traffic in 2020, helping ease congestion at the city's northeastern entrance, said the board.

Construction of Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien metro route started in August 2012, and its total investment stands at 2.49 billion U.S. dollars. Endit