Ho Chi Minh City has been planting 84 tamarind saplings along a section of Le Loi Boulevard in District 1, a year after the construction site of an underground metro station on the road was cleared.        

The city has been planting the trees, which are now four to five meters tall, between Ben Thanh Market and Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street.

As of Wednesday afternoon, workers had finished planting over 60 tamarind trees on the street.

They used iron frames and wooden logs to keep the young trees standing tall.

On Wednesday, Vu Van Diep, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Infrastructure Management Center under the municipal Department of Construction, informed Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that the center had been planting tamarind trees along one side of the road's sidewalks and the median strip.

In addition to revitalizing Le Loi Boulevard after the construction site of an underground station of the city’s first metro line was cleared, the municipal administration gave its nod to a plan to grow trees along the road to shade road users.

In August last year, the boulevard was reinstated after being blocked for the construction of the Ben Thanh Station and the tracks of metro line No. 1 for eight years.

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Architecture later proposed building a roof over Le Loi to protect pedestrians from sunlight and rain.

However, many local residents, tourists, and experts opposed the proposal, suggesting tree growing instead.

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