The Japanese public and private sector have supported the project since it was first planned in the mid-2000s, providing not only financial support through yen loans but also consistent support from design to construction and the establishment of an operating company.
@HeatedTungsten-x4e but African countries are building metros. A most recent example would be the blue line in Nigeria. Admittedly, I'm not African so I'm not suited to argue about what are facing but there does seem to be an attempt atleast for change.
There was talked before covid from the Korean government proposed building a metro line connecting district 2 and 7 where Koreans live the most, especially Korea Town in district 7 Phu My Hung........not sure what happened after that proposal
Sounds cool but it's actually a 10 years delayed project. And their have been some reports about things that shouldnt happened on the first day like, the lane separator got snapped out of its place and people realised it how poorly it was secured to the ground. As a Viet, I am still disappointed about this project.
well, it's certainly a better effort than what Chicago has going on, which is nothing........50 year old L trains in Chicago are 3rd world......the entire city is 3rd world......
While they officially blame funding shortages and bureaucratic hurdles, it's widely understood that corruption is the real culprit. A Japanese firm was awarded the contract, but consistent misappropriation of funds by government officials led to repeated work stoppages. The fact that it took 12 years to complete a single line is absurd. The funny thing is, the line's lack of connectivity to key areas of the city, including the new airport, makes the celebratory fanfare rather embarrassing
That is not the the real or main reason, though it may not be free of corruption for such a big project with so many involved from both sides. I followed the news in the past. There were several factors for the delay. It's the planning and changing of routes, repeated delays in ODA loan disbursements from Japan and also Covid. Back around 2017, they decided to make changes to the routes after consulting with a professional French firm on city rail planning. The previous plans were made by local people with no prior experience. Things have to be re-planned and recalculated as it affects the projects and the budget and that pushed the project down the timeline. Next, is the ODA payments being dispersed according to each project and not a lump sum. The city had disagreements with the costs as billed by the contractors from Japan and took much time to sort out. Funding from Japan were withheld during bouts of negotiations and work is halted for months at a time. Acquiring lands and permits also takes much time. A rail line through a city with pre-existing above/underground structures (buildings, electrical lines, water line, drainage, sewage, etc). Also, big public projects anywhere very often take much longer (and much more costly) than the initial plan promoted on paper. So many things don't go as ideally planned. The California HSR project was approved in 2008 with state funding and construction being ongoing without any route yet ready for service and no realistic time frame as to when. It is now projected to cost $89-128B just for the first phase. Many questioned the delays and rising costs. Even private enterprise Apple Inc. with its new Apple Park Headquarter, initially planned in 2006 to be completed in 2010, was not ready until 2017 while still under construction. Initially budgeted the project for under $3B, but it costs Apple $5B.
Japanese firms get shortchanged in these corrupt countries. Often they lose out on contracts despite being the best value proposition because they don't pay kickbacks to local authorities 🤦♂️. Also when you make things cheaper there's less room for corrupt officials to steal.
Don't stop now Vietnam! Keep making more railways! Here in the Philippines, we're busy extending our Light Rail Transit to reach the very edges and into the provinces(Many are already done and you can take the LRT for hours if you want to and reach outside of the Capital) and are even busy building a Subway network with an Airport Express and a Long Haul North and South of Luzon. Keep building Vietnam! ASEAN will rise together!
We already have a plan, but we are waiting to resolve old problems before implementing new projects in the following years. Currently in Vietnam, there are quite a few projects that need to be completed.
@@firstlast-pt5pp Nowadays it's not even that poor compared to many other countries or even some of it's neighbors. At this point it was most probably the coruption of the local authorities and the stupidly high bureaucracy that slowed down so much this project
Congrats HCMC and Vietnam! I'm an expat currently living here. I've been here 7 years - nice to see it's up and running. I'll have to take a ride soon.
Congratulations Vietnam🇻🇳！！ If our technology makes the Vietnamese people's lives safer and more comfortable, we couldn't be happier thank you, from Japan
@@globalstories88 as a Japanese I am also waiting for Cebu Metro Line and an upgrade of the public transportation but your governor and president is so useless wwww.
oh? Are you a railroad fan who lives in a cave? 12 years 19.7km railway, a great shame in the history of world architecture! It took China only five years to build a 1,300km high-speed railway from Shanghai to Beijing, and Japan is also very advanced in railway technology. Why so slow? Because of Vietnam's incompetence! 19.7km How long will it take for China to build? A month or a week?
@@nuo.not1033 Also if you're having a bad day or feeling the Christmas blue, please don't throw your anger at me as I have no idea what went wrong with your day.
@@Siopaoko The traffic in Bangkok today, without the MRT and BTS, would be at a complete standstill. When I was 13 (47 years ago), it used to take me 90 minutes to travel from Hua Lamphong to Ekkamai. Today, the same route takes just 20 minutes.
Why didn't you mention that Japan developed this metro with advanced technology and financial support??? Congratulations to Vietnam❤🎉wish you more successes 🇯🇵 🇻🇳 ❤
@@misthyvuto6383 After 17 years of planning and 12 years of construction. the line was finally completed at a cost of over one point seven billion dollars
Well done Vietnam. Atleast we can see growth in Vietnam. Let's all rise ASEANs
❤❤❤
Don't be America's puppet n you'll rise
Love from India ❤❤
No cheating, like SF!
Asia ❤️❤️
0:32 guy is killing the kids eardrums T.T
Viet voices are already loud enough. Now the magaphone. Oh dear
XD xD
Lol😊
that’s crazy hahha
LOL XD
Vietnam is stepping up their game. Bravo from Malaysia.
Abit slow ah
Slow but better than never
Thank u brother
Thanks fam.
@@beepbeep5153 they have it in other city too... unlike Malaysia only in KL zzz
Congratulations Vietnam from Thailand!!
Thailand is an awesome country. I'm going there next year to find a wife!
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huh
@@ۥٴٴٴٴٴٴۥۥٴٴٴۥۥٴٴٴٴۥuh oh☠️
Vote nam China 🇨🇳 😂🤣
Congratulations Vietnam from Czech Republic! We have the biggest per capita Vietnamese population in Europe and we love you guys!
Thank you! From Vietnam with love!
thank youu
Why??
love you too man. vietnamese in canada here
Wow, didn’t know that!
Wowww. Congratulations for vietnam people. You deserve it❤🎉 Love from Indonesia
Congratulations from the Netherlands! This Metro will change your city for the better
0:30 he kicks the chair 😂
what was he doing? lol
@@zurgmuckerbergI think he was trying to slide it over but miscalculated
🤣
😂 npc glitch
Bro lazy and frustrated first day 😂
Congrats Vietnam from Philippines
Philippines are back as a US colony.
Sad
@@andreinastase1604 bot iyak
@@andreinastase1604 iyak bot
@@andreinastase1604 cry bot
@@andreinastase1604 better an american one than chinese
Now, all key asean countries have a metro line.
it's nowhere near enough. we also need to get rid of the car dependent mentality
hanoi has had two for a while now. this is hcmc's first tho which is still way too long overdue.
@@freemanolThis will come in time if you make public transport affordable and accessible.
It's a debt trap!!!🔥🔥🔥
Now connect them all via one giant metro line 😂
The Japanese public and private sector have supported the project since it was first planned in the mid-2000s, providing not only financial support through yen loans but also consistent support from design to construction and the establishment of an operating company.
Go home war criminals.
@@ottohelmut7815shut up racist 🤫
Japanese construction was incredibly slow and lead to years of delays, like it did in Indonesia, Philippines, and hawaii.
@@kenadrian27 Then do it yourself
🇯🇵👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽
Congratulations, Vietnam from your Aussie mates, very proud🇦🇺🇻🇳
congratulations Vietnam from Malaysia 🇲🇾
Congratulations Vietnam I'm happy for you 🎉. Love from 🇲🇾
Congratulations Vietnam from Japan!❤
❤️🇯🇵❤️
thanks for your technology to help us build this metro line
I hope Japan cooperates with Vietnam more smoothly in other metro projects
I love and thank Japan so much
日本がこの地下鉄の工事を手伝ったり資金援助した事は全く触れられてなかったなｗ
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A big congratulations to Vietnam!
Congratulation to Vietnam. An amazing country.
Congratulations Vietnam From the Philippines 🇵🇭🎉🎉🎉
👍
Mabuhay!
From Q9 with ❤️
Meanwhile here in central Africa we are still trying to building two lane highways between major cities. Metro not in my lifetime 😥
Unfortunately Africa suffers from the 3 Cs, Culture, corruption and colonization.
@HeatedTungsten-x4e but African countries are building metros. A most recent example would be the blue line in Nigeria. Admittedly, I'm not African so I'm not suited to argue about what are facing but there does seem to be an attempt atleast for change.
@@HeatedTungsten-x4ewhich all stems from the people. So the problem is his brother, his sister, his father, his mother, and his friends 😂
It just takes time. China is cooperating with lots of countries there. The future will be interesting.
It doesn't matter, I will take action.
Congratulations from Thailand 🇹🇭❤️🇻🇳🎉🎉
Congratulations Vietnam! Greetings from your neighborhood Indonesia! I hope your governments always support the metro and more lines can be realised!
Congratulations Vietnam from Korea🇰🇷. Hope my country would also help building other infrastructure in Vietnam!
There was talked before covid from the Korean government proposed building a metro line connecting district 2 and 7 where Koreans live the most, especially Korea Town in district 7 Phu My Hung........not sure what happened after that proposal
@@anhbinbaccuc8850 that would be so cool
we’re cultural brothers, both part of the East Asian Cultural Sphere! hope we can grow together!
massive congratulations Vietnam! an incredible feat. From Hong Kong
Sounds cool but it's actually a 10 years delayed project. And their have been some reports about things that shouldnt happened on the first day like, the lane separator got snapped out of its place and people realised it how poorly it was secured to the ground. As a Viet, I am still disappointed about this project.
well, it's certainly a better effort than what Chicago has going on, which is nothing........50 year old L trains in Chicago are 3rd world......the entire city is 3rd world......
North Koera's subway train is 10 times better than what Chicago has going on, too.....
well at least our whole decade of delay finally paid off
now we just need to wait for half a century more for the entire system to complete lol
Don’t be disappointed. Its far worst in western countries. NYC just got a new line and trains. I hear its already filthy.
It’s still a step forward, they will learn from this and correct any errors. Congratulations to Vietnam 🇻🇳 ❤
Congratulations Vietnam from Nepal🇳🇵🤝🇻🇳
While they officially blame funding shortages and bureaucratic hurdles, it's widely understood that corruption is the real culprit. A Japanese firm was awarded the contract, but consistent misappropriation of funds by government officials led to repeated work stoppages. The fact that it took 12 years to complete a single line is absurd. The funny thing is, the line's lack of connectivity to key areas of the city, including the new airport, makes the celebratory fanfare rather embarrassing
That is not the the real or main reason, though it may not be free of corruption for such a big project with so many involved from both sides. I followed the news in the past. There were several factors for the delay. It's the planning and changing of routes, repeated delays in ODA loan disbursements from Japan and also Covid. Back around 2017, they decided to make changes to the routes after consulting with a professional French firm on city rail planning. The previous plans were made by local people with no prior experience. Things have to be re-planned and recalculated as it affects the projects and the budget and that pushed the project down the timeline. Next, is the ODA payments being dispersed according to each project and not a lump sum. The city had disagreements with the costs as billed by the contractors from Japan and took much time to sort out. Funding from Japan were withheld during bouts of negotiations and work is halted for months at a time. Acquiring lands and permits also takes much time. A rail line through a city with pre-existing above/underground structures (buildings, electrical lines, water line, drainage, sewage, etc). Also, big public projects anywhere very often take much longer (and much more costly) than the initial plan promoted on paper. So many things don't go as ideally planned. The California HSR project was approved in 2008 with state funding and construction being ongoing without any route yet ready for service and no realistic time frame as to when. It is now projected to cost $89-128B just for the first phase. Many questioned the delays and rising costs. Even private enterprise Apple Inc. with its new Apple Park Headquarter, initially planned in 2006 to be completed in 2010, was not ready until 2017 while still under construction. Initially budgeted the project for under $3B, but it costs Apple $5B.
Japanese firms get shortchanged in these corrupt countries. Often they lose out on contracts despite being the best value proposition because they don't pay kickbacks to local authorities 🤦♂️. Also when you make things cheaper there's less room for corrupt officials to steal.
@@ShaferHart That's why Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries are underdeveloped countries.
Congratulations Vietnam! 👏👏👏 From Hawaii ❤❤❤
*US
congrats to vietnam comrades from Brazil
Don't stop now Vietnam! Keep making more railways! Here in the Philippines, we're busy extending our Light Rail Transit to reach the very edges and into the provinces(Many are already done and you can take the LRT for hours if you want to and reach outside of the Capital) and are even busy building a Subway network with an Airport Express and a Long Haul North and South of Luzon.
Keep building Vietnam! ASEAN will rise together!
South asia to❤ love from India
Vietnam is rising, Philippines is still a US colony and far behind now.
@@UeharaKeitaro上原恵太郎 While Chinese Wumaos like you are getting more desperate and poorer
We already have a plan, but we are waiting to resolve old problems before implementing new projects in the following years. Currently in Vietnam, there are quite a few projects that need to be completed.
@@pilotmanpaul next year we have the MRT 7.
Congrats Vietnam. Nice train from SIngapore!!!
Congratulations Vietnamese people, i pray so you develop amd move ahead in every aspects of life , gdp and prosperous economy . Love from India 🇮🇳
Congrats Vietnam... I wish your country may prosper more...
Congrats Vietnam, from Malaysia.
Congratulations Vietnam. Love from India
Congratulations to Vietnam. I am very happy for this.
Well done Vietnam with ❤ from 🇸🇬
Congratulations Vietnam from Australia 😄
wait, a city with a metropolitan population of 10 million people didn't have a metro line until now?
you do know Vietnam is poor?
@@firstlast-pt5pp Even Manilla and Adis Abeba (Ethiopia) have a metro...
@@firstlast-pt5pp Nowadays it's not even that poor compared to many other countries or even some of it's neighbors. At this point it was most probably the coruption of the local authorities and the stupidly high bureaucracy that slowed down so much this project
The war has affected the economy deeply.
@@JackbladeWoW- the one in Africa is a tram line and Manila is richer
Congrats HCMC and Vietnam! I'm an expat currently living here. I've been here 7 years - nice to see it's up and running. I'll have to take a ride soon.
Congratulations Vietnam from Malaysia 🎉
thank youuuu
Congratulations Vietnam 🎉🎉🎉 love ❤️❤️❤️ from the Philippines 🙏🙏🙏♥️🇵🇭
Congratulations Vietnam from Indonesia. ❤
Congratulations Vietnam
Congratulations Vietnam🇻🇳！！
If our technology makes the Vietnamese people's lives safer and more comfortable, we couldn't be happier
thank you, from Japan
Congrats to Vietnam and all its people. Wishing you continued growth.
Congratulations Vietnam from India
Congratulations from New York 🗽It looks like a very beautiful system already, here’s to many more metro lines being built
Congratulations Vietnam from Cambodia 🎉
Congratulations from Malaysia!!! ❤
0:32 THE KID COVERING HIS EARS😂😂😂😂😂
im saving that one for sticker 😂 poor kid
Congrats Vietnam from Singapore 🎉❤
Congratulations, Vietnam!!! ❤ from Philippines 🇵🇭
love Philippines from Vietnam
Send Pag Pag.
@darth.severuss you're idiot😂😂
@darth.severuss you're idiot 😂😂
@@darth.severussdog eater
Way to go, Vietnam!
Congratulations Vietnam 🇻🇳😊
From Japan 🇯🇵
Congrats Vietnam
Congratulations Vietnam from Australia
Congratulations vietnam from Philippines. ❤️
About time!! Congrats Vietnam. From Indonesia with love.
Great job. Now please do proper and regular-interval maintenance. Don't be greedy.
No worries. Everywhere has safety protocol. And I rode it myself. The guard was so active. You don't dare stand or walk across the yellow line.😂
Congratulations Vietnam! 🇻🇳 from Singapore 🇸🇬 with love 🫶🏻
Congratulations Vietnam from Philippines!
Congrats to Vietnam. Saudi Arabia Riyadh also opened its first metro line.
Congrate for Vietnam from Indonesia👏🏻
A Big Congrats Vietnam & Greetings from Indonesia 🎉🎉🎉
Congrats Vietnam from Philippines.🙂👌
Congrats Vietnam! Waiting for Cebu, Philippines to have its own Metro Line.
They will when they stop fighting with the Chinese. The Americans can't and won't help y'all on that.
@@globalstories88 as a Japanese I am also waiting for Cebu Metro Line and an upgrade of the public transportation but your governor and president is so useless wwww.
Very proud of Vietnam! Can’t wait to go test out the metro system on my next trip back.
Congratulation vietnam 🎉
Greeting from indonesia ❤
That's a really cool metro, as railfan, I'm so happy about this.
oh? Are you a railroad fan who lives in a cave? 12 years 19.7km railway, a great shame in the history of world architecture! It took China only five years to build a 1,300km high-speed railway from Shanghai to Beijing, and Japan is also very advanced in railway technology. Why so slow? Because of Vietnam's incompetence! 19.7km How long will it take for China to build? A month or a week?
@nuo.not1033 Bro, what is your problem? Do you need Jesus?
@@NanobanaKinako I think you want to call me a mental hospital ambulance.
@@nuo.not1033 Also if you're having a bad day or feeling the Christmas blue, please don't throw your anger at me as I have no idea what went wrong with your day.
@@nuo.not1033every country has a different problem to realized. Funding, Politics, Bureaucracy, Peoples Lands
congrats to vietnam, this is a win not just for you guys but also to all ASEAN, we are distant cousins after all.
from philippines 👍👍👍
Ano daw?
Send Pag pag.
Nice Vietnam..Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines will be really strong countries in the future
Excellent! We all know how amazing Bangkok's MRT system is. This new metro line looks just as impressive. Awesome!
🤣
😂 but the traffic is still there despite having several train lines.
Bangkok metro was built using Japanese and German know-how.
@@Js136Thai same as delhi metro
@@Siopaoko The traffic in Bangkok today, without the MRT and BTS, would be at a complete standstill. When I was 13 (47 years ago), it used to take me 90 minutes to travel from Hua Lamphong to Ekkamai. Today, the same route takes just 20 minutes.
Congratulations Vietnam! From a Chinese-Vietnamese living in UK 🇬🇧❤🇻🇳
1960: tunnels
2024: tunnels with trains
Congratulations from China🎉
Congratulaions Vietnam. ♥ from India.
Congratulations Vietnam from japan🇯🇵！
Congratulations Vietnam from japan🎉
20 years for this project
Congratulations from Singapore. May there be prosperity for all and peace on earth.
so... I assume other countries in SEA already have metro lines long ago, right?
So happy for Vietnam! 🥰❤️ congratulations from Singapore
Congrats Vietnam!
Congrats Vietnam! Greetings from the Philippines ❤
東南アジアではカントリーリスクが付きまとうようだ。本来、この地下鉄は10年以上前に開業したはずだが、ベトナム側による建設費の違法的な引き上げにより、工事が途中で頓挫してしまった。
The Vietnamese was hoping it could get a Rail system for free. A kind of a free rider.
Corruption is the typical act in a third world country.
Glad to hear that great news. Waiting so long until now the first line is opened . Wish you more prosperous . Lots of love from Thailand.❤
Congratulations Vietnam! 😄💛Singapore
Congratulations Vietnam from the US! ❤ I hope this inspires some of our cities to build more metros here and in other countries as well!
Why didn't you mention that Japan developed this metro with advanced technology and financial support???
Congratulations to Vietnam❤🎉wish you more successes 🇯🇵 🇻🇳 ❤
This is China media
Congrats, Vietnam, from Spain!
Hooray to Vietnam!!!
Congratulations Vietnam greetings from Philippines
17Yrs of 20,000,000,000 USD for 20Km (100,000,000USD/Km) What's That!!!
And it was built by JAPAN 😮
Should have been china would have been cheaper faster and more modern 😅 just like in Jakarta
2000000000 usd not 20000000000 ok
@@misthyvuto6383 200Billion USD
@@misthyvuto6383 After 17 years of planning and 12 years of construction. the line was finally completed at a cost of over one point seven billion dollars
Congratulations finally a cosr effective and efficient transportation. From philippines
Congratulations Vietnam!😊
Congratulations Vietnam from India🇮🇳
Congratulations Vietnam from USA!
From Toronto, Canada congratulations!!!
Congratulations
Congratulations Vietnam, love from India 🇮🇳❤🇻🇳
Congratulations Vietnam from India 🇮🇳.