Thailand lays out high-speed rail process

 

 

The Thai government on Monday unveiled its plans for the bidding process to build a high-speed rail link between the capital and one of the country's new special economic zones.

Domestic firms were joined by others from Japan and China at a briefing in Bangkok. Thailand's state-owned railway operator plans to open the bidding in November.

The government has earmarked 3 eastern provinces to attract foreign investment in high-tech sectors including electric vehicles and aviation. The railway link is expected to cost around 6.3 billion dollars with the aim of starting operations within 6 years.

 

Full story: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180723_32/

 

-- NHK World 2018-2018-07-24

Recent information on the blatant colluding of the 'Chinese State' offereing hugely Inflated infrastructure projects to help Ex-Malaysian PM Nazib and his cronies launder Billions and Billions of dollars throught Chinese-Malaysian projects

 

makes you wonder about all these 'Rail-infrastructure' projects in Thailand with values of 100"s billions of baht, even a trillion baht was mentioned for one such project with the Chinese all being signed under the Junta

State railway plans to open bidding in november with an attached proviso, add a couple of billion to your quotes for topping up bosses pension funds.

Does the bidding include the provision of sewage disposal systems required to handle the enormous amount required for yet another bullshit express quote, that will run and run until trains become obsolete in a couple of hundred years?

 

Most anything would be considered high speed compared to most of the SRT line.  The KTM in Malaysia is a decent system.  How much more is needed than that ?

"The Thai government on Monday unveiled its plans for the bidding process to build a high-speed rail link..."

 

However, as with every government action here, the process from start to finish (If it ever occurs) will be slower than molasses flowing out of a bottle in the Antarctic. 

 

Edited July 24, 20187 yr by jaltsc

8 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

Most anything would be considered high speed compared to most of the SRT line.  The KTM in Malaysia is a decent system.  How much more is needed than that ?

I heard someone was going to start betting on snails versus SRT, but the police stopped it PDQ due to it being seen as ill-treating SRT.

 

Have they now perfected keeping the slow ones upright? .

5 hours ago, webfact said:

 The railway link is expected to cost around 6.3 billion dollars

Entirely funded from foreign loans, typically from China or Japan.

Since the technology comes from those countries, their companies might have priority in the design and construction contracts for the electronic infrastructure required to implement and operate the system.

However, two French companies, Transdev Group and SNCF Group, are in talks with Charoen Pokphand Group to set up a business partnership for the high-speed railway. So project funding may come also from France. https://www.thainl.nl/two-french-firms-keen-high-speed-rail

I am happy to travel on a high speed train built by Japanese or French.

11 minutes ago, mserror said:

I am happy to travel on a high speed train built by Japanese or French.

You won't get the chance; all the money will be creamed off before they ever get built !

How dare writers infer that Thai officials or companies (persons of influence) would scrape the cream off the top of whatever contract money comes within sight of their fingers.

 

I just wonder how much these trains are going to cost. If they're not going to run at a massive loss then they have to price them comparably to an airline, as they do in Japan.

 

I was in Japan last week. A Shinkansen between Tokyo and Kyoto, a distance of 515km, took 2 hours and 20 minutes and cost around 4500 baht. These trains run every ten minutes during the day!

 

Yesterday and SRT train between Hualamphong and Chachoengsao, a distance of around 80km, took 1 hour and 55 minutes but cost a mere 13 baht in a third class carriage (nothing else is available)! There are around ten trains a day.

 

Surely something in between is what's required.

 

But the bigger the budget the better for those involved parties so why settle for anything other than the best!