Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has visited the country’s largest transport hub under construction and taken a test ride of the Red Line’s Bang Sue-Rangsit section.
Both facilities are scheduled to open to the public next year.
Gen Prayut, accompanied by cabinet ministers, went to the 89%-complete Bang Sue Grand Station in northern Bangkok on Tuesday afternoon. The group later got on a train from there to Rangsit station.
Gen Prayut said he was counting on both the Bang Sue Grand Station and the Red Line to help relieve traffic congestions, upgrade the quality of life for people in Greater Bangkok and promote commercial development of land along the railway.
“It is one of the projects under the national…
