Jack Ma Yun's SCMP and his HK race traitors are the worst liars who denigrate China's Hanoi metro without any basis. Even VN PDF forumers are giving China more credit.
Below is SCMP comment about China built Hanoi Metro Line 2A, which as as good as the most odious mental feces.
http://www.scmp.com/week-asia/busin...o-metros-one-built-japanese-and-other-chinese
For the first time in their histories, Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi are both in the middle of desperately needed major metro-system projects that aim to transform their cities. Both are facing delays, but a series of high-profile accidents has already cast a larger shadow over the Chinese-led effort in the capital.
In contrast, the metro project led by Japanese conglomerates in Ho Chi Minh City has been accident-free. This feeds into longstanding assumptions in Vietnam about the perceived superiority of Japanese workmanship and engineering.
The first line of Ho Chi Minh City’s metro system, the Ben Thanh-Suoi Tien line, will cover 19.7km, mostly above ground, and connect the city centre with eastern districts. It is expected to begin operation in 2020, two years later than originally planned.
The line in Ho Chi Minh City is largely backed by funding and expertise from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), as well as Sumitomo Corporation and Shimizu-Maeda, two huge Japanese conglomerates. French, Italian and Korean companies are also involved in the project.
The inaugural Hanoi line, on the other hand, relies on major support from a consortium of Chinese companies headed by the China Railways Sixth Group. The construction processes pursued by these different investors has led to very different outcomes.
Hanoi’s controversial line
The first metro line in Hanoi, which broke ground in October 2011 and is somewhat confusingly called Line 2A, has suffered far more than just missed deadlines. A series of accidents has damaged its public image.
On November 6, 2014, several reels of steel fell from the construction site of a flyover on the line, killing a motorbike driver and injuring two more passers-by. The following month, a 10-metre-high section of scaffolding fell from the same flyover, trapping three people in a taxi that was travelling beneath it.
In 2015, the line drew criticism when people noticed that the track, which runs above major thoroughfares and intersections, looked wavy, raising concerns over its safety. That August a steel bar fell from another construction site onto a car, nearly killing the driver.
This May, a government inspection team detected rust on sections of the train track that hadn’t been covered in protective paint. A number of loose joints were found as well.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport has responded swiftly to these incidents by calling for improved safety measures, and while there hasn’t been an accident in roughly two years, the project’s reputation is poor.
Ho Chi Minh City’s safe, slow-moving first line
Down south, Jica has been involved in Ho Chi Minh City’s Line 1 since 2006, when the organisation conducted a feasibility study for the project. Takahashi Akito, a senior representative with Jica Vietnam, said they are now monitoring the construction process and environmental and social issues, in addition to resolving bottlenecks in order to ensure smooth implementation.
This isn’t always easy, Akito says. “Due to delays in site handover from the Vietnamese government, the construction schedule has been affected.”
Work was expected to be finished in early 2018, but that date has been pushed back to November 2020, while the cost has ballooned from an initial estimate of US$1.4 billion to nearly US$2.5 billion. The bulk of the work is being carried out by Vietnamese companies.
Musil, the French researcher, explains that there is good reason for these delays and cost overruns. “When we are speaking about metro systems, it’s new,” he says. “They [Vietnamese organisations] don’t know how to do it … they have to build the institutional framework, and that’s why they are hesitating.” He compares the situation to Shanghai, which took several years to build its first 13km of track in the 1990s, only to go on to build one of the world’s largest metro systems.
While both of the metro lines are behind schedule and over budget, there is a clear difference in their safety records. Ho Chi Minh City’s Line 1 hasn’t suffered any reported accidents, and in a country where infrastructure projects are almost always delayed, there appears to be more forgiveness for its late arrival.
Two very different lines
The string of accidents in Hanoi from 2014 to 2015 has, in the eyes of some, hurt the image of the city’s vital first metro line. “The line in Ho Chi Minh City is much better perceived,” Michael Waibel, an expert at the University of Hamburg’s Department of Human Geography who has published a series of photo books on Vietnam’s major cities, said. “Apparently, there is a higher trust in Japanese technology.”
He shared the story of a scholarship holder from Vietnam’s National Ministry of Science & Technology who bemoaned the towering height of the capital’s line, which is out of sync with the city’s low-slung traditional housing. The visibly uneven track mentioned above is also a concern. “She said she would be afraid to use this system,” Waibel explains.
Dr Vu Anh Tuan, a transport planner and lecturer at the University of Transport and Communication of Hanoi, argued that there continues to be major structural problems on Hanoi’s Line 2A.
“In Ho Chi Minh City there is technical assistance for the improvement of accessibility to MRT stations,” he said. The Asian Development Bank provides expertise in this area for the city’s entire network. “They emphasise accessibility for pedestrians to the stations and have made amendments to station design to make them better for pedestrians.”
In Hanoi, on the other hand, no similar work is being done. “For Line 2A, it’s very hard to access and approach the platforms from the ground level,” Vu said. “If we look outside the stations, it’s very difficult to walk from the station to the destination. That is a problem.”
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