Hanoi metro gets 1 million passengers in 2 months

Passengers scan tickets to ride the Cat Linh - Ha Dong metro train, November 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Pham Chieu

The Cat Linh – Ha Dong metro line in Hanoi, Vietnam's first, carried its millionth passenger Thursday morning just two months since it became operational.

City deputy chairman Nguyen Manh Quyen said the metro serves nearly 15,000 passengers a day.

The recent surge in Covid-19 cases has caused the number of commuters to fall but students and workers with season tickets have not abandoned it and their number is in fact gradually rising, he said.

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