Hanoi’s first elevated rail line to start service in December.
Contents of a new: After several years of sputtering, Hanoi's notorious elevated rail project now has a new finish date with the first train scheduled to run on Dec 31 this year, Thanh Nien News reported.
The Railway Project Management Unit (PMU), the investor, and the main contractor China Railway Sixth Group Co Ltd on Saturday signed an agreement promising to meet that deadline. Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Hong Truong witnessed the signing. Le Kim Thanh, general director of the Railway PMU, said that 70 percent of the construction work for the Cat Linh-Ha Dong project has been completed.