Bangkok to push for construction of Gold Line in Thon Buri

City Hall to push for construction of Gold Line in Thon Buri

BANGKOK: -- The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is pushing ahead with the Gold Line elevated rail project from Thon Buri railway station to Klongsarn district office covering a distance of 2.68 kilometres estimated to cost 3.8 billion baht.

Transport deputy permanent secretary Phirapol Thavornsupacharoen said that the feeder rail project would be incorporated into the second phase of the mass transit development master plan of the Office of the Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning.

The 2.68 kilometres section of the Gold Line will have five stations with the route between Taksin hospital and Wat Anongdaram being elevated.

However, certain section of the route overlaps with the Purple Line underground route for a distance of about 400 metres from the Memorial Bridge station to Ban Khaek intersection and, for that matter, the City Administration has been ordered to adjust its blue print to correct the overlapping issue and to speed up the construction plan to be completed in the middle of next year, said Mr Phirapol.

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