Construction workers complete work on two underground railway tracks of HCM City's Metro Line No. (Photo courtesy of MAUR)– Two final underground railway segments for Metro Line No 1 in Ho Chi Minh City are being installed and will be completed in two months.The HCM City Management Authority of Urban Railways (MAUR), the project’s investor, said that work on the two railway track segments began on November 9.The two segments are 660m long and 1.43m wide, and run parallel to each other between the Opera House and Ben Thanh rail stations.Around 56 engineers and construction workers assigned to do the work are fully vaccinated and strictly adhere to COVID-19 regulations.The Metro Line No 1’s underground railway system is 2.6km long, with three stations in the city centre. Facilities such as lobbies and ticket machines for the Ba Son and Opera House stations have been completed.Work on Ben Thanh Station is slated to be completed by the end of the year. Ben Thanh, Metro Line No 1 ’s central station, will connect to three other metro lines in the future.Around 88 percent of the work for the metro line had been completed as of November 10. Many locals said they preferred to use the metro line over their personal vehicles because of affordability and less traffic congestion and noise pollution./.