Airport rail link timeline announced

  1. What the contract for the high-speed railway set to link?

Don Mueang to

Suvarnabhumi to

U-tapao airports

signed by

the winning bidder by next January

the State Railway of Thailand (SRT)

has announced

  1. What the railway operator's acting governor Voravuth Mala do and when?

made the comments Monday during a

second pre-tender meeting

comprising representatives

from all 31 previously announced firms that

purchased bidding documents

  1. What the documents were?

up for grabs

June

July

cost each firm one million baht to obtain

  1. What the SRT's timeline for?

the 224-billion-baht

high-speed airport link states that

tender tender documents should be submitted by the firms on Nov 12

  1. What Mr Voravuth said and what adding?

By that evening [Nov 12], we will have the official list of bidders for the project.

adding that the authority will also find out which firms have decided to group together to make bids

  1. What current plans and contract bidding papers call for?

220-kilometre

250kph railway linking the three main Bangkok-area airports

  1. What Mr Voravuth said?

So far, we have received over 600 questions from the firms, half of which we have already answered.

Most of the questions involved some confusion regarding the tender instructions, land acquisition and commercial developments around the route.


  1. What Upon its completion, the airport-linking railway will be?

approximately 220km-long with

its trains reaching up to 250kph

  1. What it sets to link?

Don Mueang airport to

U-tapao airport in Rayong ) stop in Suvarnabhumi in Samut Prakan

  1. What the network will do?

use current Phaya Thai-Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail Link's (ARL)

extensions will be built to Don Mueang and U-tapao

  1. What the mega-project was?

fast-tracked as part of the government's plans to develop the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) which comprises

Chachoengsao

Chon Buri

Rayong

  1. What Mr Voravuth said?

The project must first pass an environmental impact assessment (EIA) from the Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning before any contract-winner can ink an agreement with the SRT.

  1. What the acting chief said?

The railway network must take no more than five years to complete after the contracts are signed, adding he expects the network to be open by the end of 2023.