Therefore, larger government expenditure is allocated on strengthening of infrastructure such as boulevards and bridges, metro, subway and tramway, city planning and city beautifying, residential projects, etc.
As planned, up to year 2020 Ho Chi Minh City will complete the construction of seven metro lines with total length of 114 km, and three lines of tram-way with length of 32.5 km.
Metro Route Project # 1 (Ho Chi Minh City)
The construction of metro route project # 1 (also known as Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien metro route) with a total length of 19.7km and investment of US$1.1 billion has been started on 21 February 2010.
Metro Route Project # 2 (Ho Chi Minh City)
The construction of metro route project # 2 (also known as Ben Thanh – Tham Luong metro route) with a total length of about 20km and investment of about US$1.24 billion has been started 24 August 2010.
River-Crossing Tunnel (Ho Chi Minh City)
The construction of Ho Chi Minh City most modern river-crossing tunnel in South East Asia was started on February 2005 and finally completed on 21 September 2010. This tunnel has a length of 1,490 m crossing Saigon River.
