New BTS Gold Line along Chao Phraya River expected in 2017

A new BTS Gold Line, which will extend from Thonburi station for three kilometers, is expected to open in 2017.

Taweesak Lertprapan, director of the Traffic and Transportation Department, said the organization is currently assessing public opinion on the new BTS Gold Line, which will be partially funded by the the Icon Siam project, the THB50-billion, riverside shopping mall and condominium project by Siam Piwat, Magnolia Quality Development, and CP.

The project, on Charoen Nakhon road, is also set to open in 2017 and brands itself as the “largest community mall” in Thailand, with two 40- and 70-storey towers covering 80,000 square meters.

In the first launch, the BTS line will extend from the old Thonburi station with two stops: Icon Siam and Thaksin Hospital.

Two more stations along Somdet Chao Phraya road will be added later.

The new gold line, which was not originally in the BTS construction plan, was proposed in July.

The project is expected to cost THB2-3 billion and serve 47,000 passengers per day, Than Settakij and Prachachart reported.

Source: Coconuts

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New Purple Line trains arrive, #Thailand

A new Japanese-made carriage is unloaded at the Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri.

 Nine carriages that will form three trains on Bangkok's Purple Line arrived from Japan on Friday for the new electric railway extension scheduled to open next August.

Chula Sukmanop, director-general of the Marine Department, said the new carriages arrived from Yokohama on the Thai-registered TMN Progress vessel at Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri province at 9am Friday.

Bangkok Metro Plc (BMCL), the system operator that holds the concession from the state-run Mass Rapid Transit Authority, ordered the trains from its supplier, a Marubeni-Toshiba joint venture. The supplier had the trains produced at the plant of Japan Transport Engineering Co (J-Trec) in Yokohama. The trains will be transported to a depot at the Khlong Bang Phai station in Nonthaburi province.

BMCL has ordered a total of 21 trains comprising 63 carriages for the Purple Line that stretches 23 kilometres from Bang Yai district in Nonthaburi to Bang Sue district in Bangkok.

Test runs of the new line are expected to begin late this year and service is scheduled to start in August 2016.

Source: BangkokPost

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