The Ministry of Transport has asked the Vietnam’s National Assembly to consider new amendments to the Railway Law, which also lays out the construction of a high-speed rail link. The ministry is trying to bring back a once rejected plan to build a high-speed rail line to replace Vietnam’s only north-south line that has become obsolete.
The proposed legislation is expected to be submitted at an upcoming session of the National Assembly in October. The Ministry of Transport plans to submit a pre-feasibility study report on the project to the government in 2018 and expects legislators to give their approval by 2020.
The ministry intends to build the line in phases, the plan being to complete the whole project by 2050. According to the new plans, the first section would be the Saigon-Long Thanh line in the south, followed by the Hanoi-Vinh section.
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