The Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OTP) has floated seven motorway projects at a cost of 1.27 trillion baht. The projects, covering 2,796 kilometres, are included in the country's motorway development masterplan, which would be handed to the Transport Ministry to consider, putting them in the national strategy, OTP deputy director Chayathan

Thai Cabinet sets second high-speed rail phase rolling, from Nakhon Ratchasima to Nong Khai The cabinet yesterday approved the first sum of 112 million baht of the 751-million-baht budget required for financing the design of the second phase of the Thai-Chinese high-speed train project in the Northeast. The second phase is a 355-km long section

Construction of a new highway from Bang Pa-in to the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima is now 68 percent complete and the route is expected to be open for traffic in 2021, the Thai-language daily Thai Rath reported yesterday (March 8, 2019). The new route has two sections that run parallel to Phaholyotin and Friendship

High-speed trains and Bangkok terminal part of plan to revive antiquated network BANGKOK -- Thailand is in the midst of an ambitious railway development drive aimed at weaning the country away from autos to more eco-friendly train transportation while transforming into a regional rail hub. The government will spend more than $25 billion to build

Bullet trains in Japan. The State Railway of Thailand says estimates of passengers on the planned Bangkok-Chiang Mai Shinkansen-like 'bullet train' are wildly exaggerated. (File photo) The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) is worried that the planned Shinkansen-like Thai-Japanese high-speed railway from Bangkok to Chiang Mai will run at a loss when it opens, citing

The Department of Highways will push for a project to construct the Bang Pa-in-Nakhon Ratchasima motorway to be included in the eight-year strategic infrastructure development plans initiated by the junta, a department source said. The inter-provincial motorway would ease traffic congestion on Mittraphap Road leading to the Northeast, as well as distributing wealth throughout the

The Department of Highways will temporarily open an under-construction tunnel linking Thap Lan National Park and Khao Yai National Park beginning Tuesday to accommodate a mass of motorists before and during the Songkran festival. According to the department, the tunnel will be temporarily made available from Tuesday to ease traffic congestion along Prachin Buri-Nakhon Ratchasima