The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board (MAUR) has just issued a document recommending the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to assign tasks and allocate capital to carry out preparations to invest in two new elevated metro lines, connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the old Binh Duong area.
Urban railway line No. 1 (Binh Duong New City - Suoi Tien) with a length of 29.01km, all of which are elevated.
The route starts from the central station of Binh Duong New City and ends at Suoi Tien Bus Station on Metro Line No. 1 (Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien). The route will use Long Binh depot with Metro Line 1.
The route is expected to have 17 elevated stations, with a total investment of VND 46,725 billion.
Regarding progress, on June 12, 2025, the People's Committee of the old Binh Duong province submitted to the Prime Minister a Pre-Feasibility Study Report for the project. Then, on June 22, the State Appraisal Council issued an official appraisal report.
On June 26, the Government Office issued Official Letter No. 5875/VPCP-CN conveying the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha: assign the Ministry of Construction to be authorized by the Prime Minister to sign the Government's Submission to the National Assembly for consideration.
Urban railway line No. 2 (Thu Dau Mot - Ho Chi Minh City) is 21.87km long, running entirely on elevated ground.
The route starts from the S5 station of urban railway line No. 1, in Phu My ward (old Thu Dau Mot city) and ends in Vinh Phu ward (old Thuan An city), where the route will connect with metro line No. 3 of Ho Chi Minh City in the old Hiep Binh Phuoc area.
The project is expected to have about 13 elevated stations, using a common depot with Metro Line 3 of Ho Chi Minh City in Hiep Binh Phuoc. This route has a total investment of about 53,000 billion VND.
On June 24, 2025, the People's Committee of Binh Duong province (before the merger) established an internal appraisal council. On June 29, this council held a meeting and issued a report on the internal appraisal results of the project's pre-feasibility study report.
MAUR said that according to the revised Law on Public Investment 2024 and Law No. 90/2025/QH15 dated June 25, 2025, local railway projects - especially metro projects under the urban development model oriented towards public transport (TOD) - no longer have to carry out investment policy decision procedures, if they are already in the planning approved by competent authorities.
Along with that, the new Railway Law (No. 95/2025/QH15) effective from January 1, 2026, also officially classifies metro as a form of local railway, serving passenger transport in urban areas and surrounding areas.
According to Article 26 of this law, the People's Committees at the provincial level are given the right to decide on investment and adjust metro projects in the group A order, helping localities be more proactive in implementing new metro lines.
Based on the above grounds, the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board proposed that the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee assign the task of organizing the implementation of investment preparation for the two metro projects above to this unit.
At the same time, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Finance was assigned to advise on the allocation of capital in the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021 - 2025 and the plan for 2025. In the immediate future, it is proposed that each route be allocated 10 billion VND to carry out steps such as surveying, preparing a feasibility study report, assessing environmental impact...
