When I moved to Vietnam in 2012, Japan had just broken ground on the country’s first subway system in the southern commercial hub of Saigon. Back then, there was a lot of excitement around ambitious plans to build half a dozen lines within a decade.
Well, it’s 2021, almost ten years later, and they’re still working on getting just that one line built and no one really knows when that’s even going to happen.
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