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Article: New Thai subway starts up
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- China Daily
- Article date:
- July 5, 2004
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Thailand's new US$3.5 billion subway opened in Bangkok on Saturday
in the government's latest attempt to ease the traffic jams that
often choke the capital and force some motorists to keep portable
urinals in their cars.
"Traffic in Bangkok will be at a stand-still without urgent
construction of subways because the government can't build roads fast
enough to serve surging new car sales," Prime Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra said in his weekly radio address on Saturday. "My
government has put the construction of mass transit systems as one of
the most urgent plans."
King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit opened the 20-kilometre
subway line and took the 30-minute train ride. The line connects ...