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Two underground stations, the Opera House station and Ba Son station (one of the three underground stations of metro line 1, along with the central underground station of Ben Thanh) have now completed 100% of the structure and are urgently completing the structures. the rest and is expected to be put into operation in the fourth quarter of 2023.
Opera House underground station is designed underground with 190m long, 26m wide, about 33m deep with four floors. The station has five entrances, exit 5 at Lam Son park in front of the Opera House, exit 4 opposite is directly connected to the basement of Union Square Tower, the other three are on the side facing the street. Pasteur.
City Theater Station is the first underground station to complete 100% of the structure and architecture. Including, the first floor includes passenger service equipment (lobby, ticket machines, automatic toll gates, ...), information room for passengers has been installed basically. The second floor is the platform, where the train stops and stops to pick up and drop off passengers. The 3rd floor is the equipment area for station staff, disaster control center, rest area and electrical equipment rooms, air conditioners and ventilation systems, electromechanical rooms (water pump system). exhaust), the ventilation ducts of the station. The 4th floor is the platform, where the train stops and stops to pick up and drop off passengers.
Ba Son underground station is designed with a length of 240 m, a width of 34.5 m, a depth of about 20 m including two floors. The first floor includes passenger service equipment (lobby, ticket machines, automatic toll gates, …), information room for passengers. The second floor is the platform, where the train stops and stops to pick up and drop off passengers.
Currently, Ba Son station has completed 100% of the structure, the completed architectural part is 98.55% of the volume. The two underground stations of Opera House and Ba Son are connected by an underground track about 1 km long. Once completed and put into operation, the train takes just over a minute to travel between these two stations. 
Ba Son Station has five entrances up and down. Specifically, exit 1 is located on the sidewalk of VP Bank Tower Saigon; Exit 2 is located along the sidewalk of Ba Son Company; exit 3 along the banks of the Saigon River; entrances 4 and 5 connect to the project of commercial office building and service complex Saigon - Ba Son.



Ben Thanh Central Underground Station has been fitted with a giant skylight for natural light. Photo: Tu Quy.

Of the 11 elevated stations of metro line 1, the City Hi-Tech Park station (SHTP station) has so far completed over 99% of the volume. Specifically, the reinforced concrete items have been completed, the architecture and mechanical and electrical related works have also been completed. Items including test run, mechanical operation, electricity and parking on the ground floor, are currently being urgently completed.
SHTP station has a length of 137.17 m with two floors and three entrances. This is a typical elevated station of the entire metro line 1, aesthetically designed in the form of an open station, - except for places where the walls are closed to cover rain and sun, providing maximum natural ventilation.
According to the plan, the metro project No. 1 will be completed and put into commercial operation by the end of 2022. However, the project was delayed due to many reasons, including the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, causing the project to be delayed. faced some difficulties, there were some changes in the order, regulations and laws in the process of making, appraising and approving the cost estimates. The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City then proposed delaying the completion of metro project No. 1 to the end of the fourth quarter of 2023, operating in early 2024, and ending the project from 2024 to the end of 2028.

According to VnEconomy