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Wed, 05/25/2016 - 15:27
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Bangkok's Mo Chit 2 bus terminal to be relocated by 2018

BANGKOK, May 25 (TNA) - State-run Transport Company, under the supervision of the Ministry of Transport, has agreed to relocate its Bangkok's Mo Chit 2 bus terminal by 2018 to allow the State Railway of Thailand (SRT), the owner of the plot of land, to develop a depot and station for its Red Line electric railway there. Thai Deputy Transport Minister Ormsin Chivapruck told journalists of the update on Wednesday, after a joint meeting of the Ministry of Transport, SRT and Transport Company. Ormsin revealed that Transport Company, thus, plans to move part of its Mo Chit 2 facilities to an adjacent 16.7-rai plot of land (2.5 rais = 1 acre) in Phahon Yothin area, which is now a bus terminal of the state-run Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA), while the remaining facilities will go to Transport Company's own 45-rai-depot in Rangsit area of Bangkok's neighboring Pathum Thani Province, the relocation of which should cost the company about one billion baht. The deputy transport minister said that BMTA will, therefore, spend about 50 million baht on moving its bus terminal to a nearby 7.3-rai-plot of land under an expressway near the Central Juvenile and Family Court by mid-2017. Besides, transport authorities will study shuttle bus service between Rangsit and the vicinity of Mo Chit 2 and a plan for Transport Company to move its Mo Chit bus terminal to its previous location, a plot of land owned by the Ministry of Finance's Treasury Department on Phahon Yothin Road, where a parking lot for a skytrain railway is seated. (TNA)

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