SRT to request funds for Pattaya-Bangkok high-speed rail line in Oct.

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SRT to request funds for Pattaya-Bangkok high-speed rail line in Oct.

PATTAYA:---The State Railway of Thailand next month will request 28 billion baht to construct a high-speed train line linking Pattaya with the region’s three main airports.

 

Chonburi Deputy Gov. Phawat Lertmukhda chaired an Aug. 30 public hearing at the Asia Hotel about the project connecting U-Tapao-Rayong-Pattaya Airport with Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang.

 

SRT development director Julthep Jithasombat said the agency will set forth its formal plan at a meeting next month and make the budget request under the government’s Eastern Economic Corridor project.

 

If approved, construction would begin in 2018 with the line opening in 2022.

 

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