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HCM City: Work starts on metro line 1 tunnel

A Japanese-made tunnel boring machine (TBM) began carving out a tunnel for the metro line 1- Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien section in Ho Chi Minh City on May 26.
HCM City: Work starts on metro line 1 tunnel ảnh 1The Japanese-made tunnel boring machine (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – A Japanese-made tunnel boringmachine (TBM) began carving out a tunnel for the metro line 1- Ben Thanh-SuoiTien section in Ho Chi Minh City on May 26.

The TBM will drill the eastern part of the tunnel from BaSon terminal and is expected to arrive at the city Opera House terminal inDecember.

It then will be dismounted and transported back to Ba Son terminalto carve out the western part of the tunnel. The work is expected to becompleted in June 2018.

Le Minh Quang, head of the Ho Chi Minh City urban railwaymanagement board, said that the use of TBM will help well control subsidence,reduce bad impacts on the environment and traffic, thus contributing tospeeding up the construction.

Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phongsaid the metro line 1 is one of the city’s key infrastructure projects thathelps tackle traffic congestion and improve the city’s urban infrastructure.

He asked for more efforts to complete and put the metro lineinto operation in 2020.

The Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien section is 19.7 kilometres long, inwhich the tunnel’s length is 2.6 kilometres. The project has a total investmentof nearly 2.5 billion USD. Its construction began in August 2012.-VNA
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