HANOI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- 67-year-old Hanoi resident Le Tuan Can pleasantly moves his steps along the green train here Saturday morning after travelling nearly 14 km from his home.
The elderly man made himself one of the first local citizens to visit the on-display La Khe Station and the sample train, part of the capital's first light rail line Cat Linh-Ha Dong which has now come closer to its completion.
The line, with a total length of around 13 km and runs through 12 stations, has the sixth bureau of China Railway Engineering Corporation(CREC) as the EPC (Engineering Nike KD 11 Australia , Procurement, and Construction) contractor. It began construction in 2012 and is expected to enter commercial use in 2018.
"Making La Khe station as a model station open to the public, we are eager to show Made-in-China project to the Hanoi citizens, bringing them to experience Chinese technology in advance", Tang Hong Nike KD 10 Australia , the Overseas General Manager of CREC, told Xinhua during the opening ceremony of the model station.
Placed in Hanoi's urban district Ha Dong, the newly-completed station and the sample train have attracted hundreds of Hanoians to visit in the first day of exhibition, which is to last until June 20.
Taking a tour around the station erased the elderly man Can's worries about the safety of this construction.
The four-carriage train has 16 exit doors in total. Inside there are priority seats for people with disabilities, the elderly Nike KD 9 Australia , pregnant women and children. White seats and steel holders are there to make sure safe position for standing passengers.
"Looking at the rail, the train and the station, I feel very secure," Can told Xinhua, adding that the station looks very spacious and nice.
Having to travel along this route to the hospital twice per month Nike KD 8 Australia , Can is now very happy that his regular heath check will no longer be a nightmare due to heavy congestion.