Bangkok Mass Transit buying more trains as govt plans 300km of track additions
Bangkok
BANGKOK Mass Transit System Pcl, the operator of the Thai capital's elevated railway network, has opened bidding to buy as many as 43 trains valued at 10 billion baht (S$392 million) for its current route and two planned ones.
"We're considering whether to buy all of them at once or buy only the first lot of seven trains for the current network," Surapong Laoha-Unya, chief executive officer of Bangkok Mass Transit, or BTS, said in an Oct 14 interview in Bangkok. "If we decide to buy them all, this may be the biggest train purchase ever for Thailand."
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