[VTV.vn] – Not only changing the appearance of urban areas, resolving congestion, the urban railway network is expected to change the habit of using public transport of the people.
In fact, many people have not experienced traveling in the city by public transport system is the metro – urban railway, transporting large number of passengers, many times, many flights during the day, with high speed more than 100km / h.
To build a simple metro line, it takes from $ 2 to $ 4 billion, depending on the length, tunnel or air, metro width or size. Costly, but to solve problems such as congestion, accidents, environmental pollution, Metro development is an indispensable trend of all the megacity in the world, which does not exclude 2 cities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Ho Chi Minh City has 10 million people, while the population of Hanoi is over 7,500,000. Congestion is always a phrase that is mentioned every day in these two big cities. In order to overcome the problems of congestion, metro projects, the choice of many countries to solve the “problem” of urban transport is increasingly painful.
Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, after many years of construction, the first urban railway is gradually forming. According to traffic experts, the traffic development trend of large cities is densely populated and often congested … it is gradually replacing private means by public transport. Developing the urban rail network is the most suitable option for these two major cities.
Not only changing the appearance of urban areas, solving congestion, traffic accidents, environmental pollution, etc., the urban railway network is expected to change the habit of using public transport and communication. transport of people.
In the future, metro lines will gradually develop into closed circuits like many large cities in the world, meeting the increasing demand in the inner city as well as in the vicinity, especially on the routes. Transportation is important.