Electric Train Project to Spare Ancient Shrine

 

 

BANGKOK, March 5 (TNA) – The Transport Ministry has assured that a new electric railway extension project will spare a 237-year-old shrine of a Buddhist temple.

 

Sorapong Paitoonpong, deputy permanent secretary for transport, wrote in the Facebook page of Wat Iam Woranut quoting the Mass Rapid Transit Authority as confirming that the construction of an extension of the Purple Line would not affect the shrine of revered Luang Pu Thuat and the Transport Ministry would have MRTA minimize impacts on the Buddhist temple.

 

The Transport Ministry responded to criticisms on possible impacts on Wat Iam Woranut near Bang Khun Phrom intersection.

 

Representatives of the temple complained on its Facebook page that the temple and its buildings would be expropriated for the construction of the southern extension of the Purple Line that would also cost the 237-year-old shrine. 

 

Full story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news/line-today-english-news-649228

 

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

Electric Train Project to Spare Ancient Shrine

 

The Transport Ministry has assured that a new electric railway extension project will spare a 237-year-old shrine of a Buddhist temple.

How can a 237-year-old shrine be considered ancient?

Old or antique, but not 'ancient' - that word would indicate to me an earlier period of time - at least a thousand years ago.