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Seminar talks ways to remove obstacles to urban railway development in Hanoi, HCM City

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City need to complete their urban railway networks within the next more than 10 years to catch up with other urban areas in Southeast Asia, heard a seminar in the capital city on January 17.
Seminar talks ways to remove obstacles to urban railway development in Hanoi, HCM City ảnh 1Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City need to complete their urban railway networks within the next more than 10 years to catch up with other urban areas in Southeast Asia. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh Cityneed to complete their urban railway networks within the next more than 10years to catch up with other urban areas in Southeast Asia, heard a seminar inthe capital city on January 17.

Dang Huy Dong, Director of Hanoi’s Planning andDevelopment Research Institute, emphasised the target of completing the urbanrailway networks in the two cities by 2035 in accordance with the Politburo’s ConclusionNo. 49 - KL/TW, which, however, is a hard task.

To remove obstacles to these efforts, he suggested relevantagencies tailor new, specific legal frameworks for the two cities, which shouldbe implemented through special mechanisms.

Dong proposed the National Assembly allow them to identifyurban railway projects associated with the transit-oriented development (TOD)areas adjacent to stations as public investment ones; issue local and projectbonds or apply other legal forms of capital mobilisation; and earmark 1 billionUSD, of which half comes from the local coffer and the remainder from thecentral budget, to implement pilot projects under the a controlled testingmechanism (sandbox).

Besides, the two cities should be permitted to managecontractors under International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC)contracts fully to ease legal risks for state management agencies and investorsand accelerate project progress; and select and issue a framework of standardsand general technical regulations applicable to urban railway projects based onthe most popular standards and regulations in the world, he continued.

With such specific mechanism, it would take the two citiesonly about 10 years to perfect their urban railway systems, Dong said.

Sanaki Shigeyuki, World Bank transport programmecoordinator for Vietnam, stressed that it is time to start TOD urban railwaydevelopment in Vietnam.

The bank recommended Vietnam to issue resolutions ordecisions to establish institutions, identifying TOD as the basic policyorientation, and build laws, decrees and circulars on tools that facilitate TODimplementation and the exploitation of added value from land./.
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