'Sea of people' jostling to experience HCMC metro on the weekend
Báo Tiền Phong•29/12/2024
TPO - On December 29, the eighth day of operation of Ho Chi Minh City's urban railway line No. 1 (Metro No. 1 Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien), tens of thousands of people continued to flock to the station areas to experience it. The crowded and bustling scene recurred at the Ben Thanh central station area (District 1).
TPO - On December 29, the eighth day of operation of Ho Chi Minh City's urban railway line No. 1 (Metro No. 1 Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien), tens of thousands of people continued to flock to the station areas to experience it. The crowded and bustling scene recurred at the Ben Thanh central station area (District 1).
Video : Ho Chi Minh City residents crowded to experience the metro on the weekend.
According to the reporter's records on December 29, tens of thousands of people flocked to Ben Thanh underground station (District 1) to wait to experience the Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien metro train on the eighth day of commercial operation.
A large number of passengers, gathered at the same time, lined up at Ben Thanh central station to wait their turn to board the train.
The station must mobilize maximum human resources and volunteers to help people travel safely and conveniently by train.
Crowds of people jostling in line at Ben Thanh central station on the afternoon of December 29.
People have to wait hours to get on the train.
Ben Thanh Station continues to be overloaded on weekends.
Volunteers support and control the number of people getting off the train station, avoiding the situation of too many people gathering at one time.
Underground area of the station.
Sharing with reporters, Mr. Do Minh Khoa (living in District 11) said that it was the weekend so he took his father to try the metro train. “My father has heard about this project for a long time, last week he heard the news that the train was officially running so he wanted to try it. When we arrived, we saw a lot of people waiting in line, we couldn’t wait any longer so we had to go home. Today, we had to wait nearly 1 hour to get on the train” - Mr. Khoa said.
Crowds of people waiting for the train to arrive.
Bustling scene when the train just arrived at Ben Thanh station.
People boarded the train one by one.
Bustling scene inside the train.
Many people could not hide their excitement when experiencing the first metro line of Ho Chi Minh City for the first time.
After 1 week of official operation, Ho Chi Minh City metro line 1 has served 707,000 passengers, exceeding the transport plan by more than 270%.
During the first 30 days of commercial operation of Metro Line 1, Ho Chi Minh City will provide free service to all passengers. After that time, one-way tickets will cost from 7,000 to 20,000 VND/person, depending on the distance traveled. In addition, there are 1-day tickets priced at 40,000 VND, 3-day tickets priced at 90,000 VND and monthly tickets priced at 300,000 VND (general passengers), 150,000 VND (students).
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