Officially started construction of technical infrastructure of metro line 2 project in Ho Chi Minh City

TPO - The leader of the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board said that the relocation of technical infrastructure works will be basically completed in 2024 to be ready to hand over the site to the main contractor to construct the tunnel and stations of metro line 2 in 2025.

On the morning of February 17, at Ben Thanh Central Station (District 1), the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board (investor) held a ceremony to launch construction in the year of Giap Thin 2024 for the project to build metro line 2 (metro line 2: Ben Thanh - Tham Luong).

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Bui Anh Huan - Deputy Head of the HCM City Urban Railway Management Board said that the project with a length of more than 11 km (of which the underground section is more than 9 km long; the elevated section is nearly 2 km long) with 10 stations (9 underground stations, 1 elevated station), the HCM City Metro No. 2 project passes through the following districts: 1, 3, 10, 12, Tan Binh and Tan Phu with a total recovered area of ​​251,136 m2; total compensation and support costs are 3,753,610 billion VND. Up to now, the site handover rate has reached 86.69% (508/586 cases).

Leaders of the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board and units performed the launching ceremony to deploy construction in the early year of Giap Thin 2024 for the construction project of metro line No. 2 (Ben Thanh - Tham Luong).

To prepare a "clean" site for the main contractors to start construction in 2025, on June 22, 2023, the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board held a groundbreaking ceremony to relocate the technical infrastructure works of the electrical category.

According to Mr. Huan, by December 2023, the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board has completed the selection of contractors for the relocation and reconstruction of water supply, drainage, lighting, signboards, and traffic signals.

“Thus, the relocation of technical infrastructure has met the conditions for simultaneous construction. I request contractors to urgently focus on mobilizing workers and construction equipment; at the same time, I request the drainage contractor to coordinate with water and electricity contractors to deploy construction work immediately after today's ceremony to ensure the progress agreed upon by all parties to basically complete the relocation of technical infrastructure works in 2024 to be ready to hand over the site to the main contractor to construct the tunnel and stations in 2025" - Mr. Huan said.

Previously, the work of relocating the power grid was implemented in 2023. Photo: Tu Anh

In addition to ensuring the construction is on schedule, the Deputy Head of the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board also requested contractors to pay attention to labor safety management and environmental sanitation during the construction process.

The HCMC Metro Line No. 2 project (Ben Thanh - Tham Luong) has a total investment of more than VND47,890 billion using ODA loans from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the German Reconstruction Bank (KfW), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and counterpart capital from the budget.

The project is expected to start construction in early 2025.

Huu Huy

Source: https://tienphong.vn/chinh-thuc-thi-cong-dong-loat-ha-tang-ky-thuat-du-an-metro-2-tphcm-post1612821.tpo