Ground was broken for technical infrastructure for metro line No. 2 in HCM City on June 22. VNA/VNS Photo

HCM CITY — Ground was broken for technical infrastructure for HCM City’s metro line No 2 on Thursday.

The line’s phase 1, between Bến Thành in the downtown area of the southern city and Tham Lương in District 12, will be running more than 11km through districts 1, 3, 10, 12, Tân Bình and Tân Phú.

Some 9.1km will be underground, and there will be nine underground stations and one above ground, and a depot in district 12.

The relocation of infrastructure for metro line No 2 of Bến Thành-Tham Lương in HCM City will be done in an intermittent 20-month period, at 12 locations along Metro line 2, he added.

According to the Metropolitan Railway Administration, the start of construction and rearrangement of infrastructure will enable acquisition and clearance of land to be handed over to the construction contractors by 2025.

Some 86.7 per cent of the lands required for the project have been cleared, and 508 out of 586 works have been handed over; 66 more are pending in District 3 due to disagreement over the compensation for households having to relocate to make way for the project.

HCM City People’s Committee has set up a working team in April to resolve issues related to acquisitions to complete the process by the end of this year. — VNS