{"id":14733,"date":"2020-10-28T23:45:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dongtam.mywebico.com\/?p=14733"},"modified":"2020-10-28T23:45:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T16:45:18","slug":"hcmc-may-have-to-cut-down-150-year-old-trees-in-central-park-for-metro-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/hcmc-may-have-to-cut-down-150-year-old-trees-in-central-park-for-metro-line\/","title":{"rendered":"HCMC may have to cut down 150-year-old trees in central park for metro line"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div align=\"justify\">Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City say they will have to allocate a large area in Tao Dan Park for the second metro line, which will connect its central districts with the fast growing western suburbs.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tao-dan1-lias.jpg\" style=\"width: 500px;height: 375px\" title=\"tao-dan1-lias\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">A file photo of Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City. At least 33 big trees in the park will have to be cut down for the city&#8217;s second metro line project.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"> According to a new plan, the 10-hectare park in District 1 needs to cut up a piece of land of 2,100 square meters for the project. That means at least 33 big trees will have to be felled, many of which were grown in the 1860s.<\/p>\n<p> Some officials in District 1 has asked the city to reconsider such a plan, saying the park serves as the lungs of the city center and its trees should be preserved.<\/p>\n<p> Tao Dan is a popular spot in the city, with a playground for children, a temple of ancient Vietnamese rulers Hung Kings, and a lot of space for outdoors activities.<\/p>\n<p> The city government earlier this month said that the metro line No. 2 is falling behind schedule and expected to cost 50 percent more than the initial estimate.<\/p>\n<p> The city said in a report that the line is now expected to cost more than US$2 billion compared with the initial number of nearly $1.35 billion.<\/p>\n<p> It said the cost has burgeoned after a recent estimate found the track and underground stations would cost $1.17 billion instead of $404 million as expected earlier.<\/p>\n<p> The city will file a detailed report this month on the cost adjustments to seek approval from the government.<\/p>\n<p> Work on the line, one of the eight planned for the country\u2019s first subway network, began in January with money from official development assistance and the city.<\/p>\n<p> It will run more than 11.3 kilometers, including 9.3 kilometers underground, from a station near Ben Thanh Market in District 1 to Tan Phu District.<\/p>\n<p> Work on the first line connecting Ben Thanh and Suoi Tien in District 9 began in 2012 and is expected to finish by 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <i><b>Thanhniennews.com<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City say they will have to allocate a large area in Tao Dan Park for the second metro line, which will connect its central districts with the fast growing western suburbs. A file photo of Tao Dan Park in Ho Chi Minh City. At least 33 big trees in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[734],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15139,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14733\/revisions\/15139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dongtam.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}