Years of start-and-stop construction means the seemingly new ticket vending machines are partly obsolete: they accept coins that are no longer in circulation.
After years of funding shortages, ballooning costs and bureaucratic foot-dragging, Ho Chi Minh City is opening the first metro line to serve its 10 million residents.
The project, whose construction began in 2012, received substantial financing aid from the Japanese government, according to the city’s transport department. Obstacles included a funding shortage from the Vietnamese government that caused Japanese contractors to complain through the Japanese embassy in Vietnam, according to local media and government reports.
The metro line runs from the historic Ben Thanh Market in the city’s District 1 centre to the suburban Thu Duc City and Suoi Tien Amusement Park in District 9. In a city with 8.4 million motorbikes clogging narrow streets – and a growing number of automobiles and trucks hauling cargo containers adding to the road mayhem – a mass rapid transit line is desperately needed.
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