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More trains for Airport Link, new route planned

Published: 14/02/2012 at 03:27 AM
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The Transport Ministry will buy more trains for the Airport Rail Link and build a new line from Suvarnabhumi airport to Pattaya.

Pakorn Tangjetsakao, acting president of SRT Electric Train Co under the jurisdiction of the ministry, said the company needs five more trains worth 3 billion baht to add to the eight trains it has currently.

The new trains will allow existing ones to go in for maintenance and cut passenger waiting times from 12-20 minutes to 7-10 minutes.

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Discussion 2 : 16/02/2012 at 03:27 AM2
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I thought they were hiding the money in that fellows house to pay for this. Speaking of him what happened to him? And who got the money?
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Discussion 1 : 14/02/2012 at 11:52 PM1
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These are enormous figures: five more trains worth 3 billion baht; 255 million baht hiring a consultant; borrow 72.25 billion baht from the Finance Ministry for the Blue Line and Green Line electric railway network extensions.

Will there be oversight? Or might this end up in someone's house as "their daughter's dowry money"?
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