Developer starts building transit

Developer starts building transit

BANGKOK (Reuter): Thai developer Tanayong Plc yesterday
started building a mass transit system designed to slice through
the key residential and commercial sections of Bangkok, as part
of an effort to relieve the traffic-snarled capital.

Thailand's Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn presided over a
Buddhist ceremony in monsoon showers to start test construction
down the middle of busy Rajadamri Road in the heart of Bangkok.

If all goes well in the next three months of construction on
that stretch of road, government authorities will give the go-
ahead for building to start on a massive scale, Tanayong
executive director Edward Chow told reporters after the ceremony.

The 35 billion baht ($1.4 billion) project, an elevated light
railway to run down the residential roads of Phahonyothin and
Sukhumvit and through the key commercial avenue of Silom, is one
of three mass transit systems planned for the capital.