Not happening: Hanoi's second metro to miss 2022 deadline

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The Nhon depot of the Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line, is half-finished in late 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Pham Chieu

 

The Nhon-Hanoi Station metro line, scheduled to have its elevated section running by the end of this year, will miss the deadline, its managers have said.

 

The Nhon depot construction is less than 80 percent complete and the line’s consortium of sponsors, including the Asia Development Bank, the French Development Agency and the French Treasury, said in a recent letter to the Vietnamese government that completing the elevated section by the of 2022 "seems no longer practical."

 

Le Trung Hieu, deputy director of Hanoi Metropolitan Railway Management Board (MRB), said Sunday that it’s unclear when the section can be finished due to problems with the contractor.

 

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