CHIANG MAI, Jan 15 – The mobile cabinet meeting in Chiang Mai is considering logistics development in northern provinces on Sunday.
The mobile cabinet meeting is being held at the Bank of Thailand office in this northern provinces amid tight security. Five companies of police officers were deployed and sniffer dogs were utilized. A US made bomb disposal robot was also used for the first time.
Logistics-related megaprojects are on the agenda such as Bangkok “ Chiang Mai high speed rail under a joint agreement recently signed between Thailand and China and other rail systems worth over 180 billion baht.
Other projects include a Chiang Mai –Chiang Rai motorway, the 150 kkilometre route, which will cut travel time from six hours to 3-4 hours, Chiang Mai international airport expansion, and flood prevention and management system.
Before the cabinet meeting, the prime minister met the Joint Private-Public Standing Committee to listen to their proposals on transportation development in the North in relation to the agenda to be discussed by the cabinet Sunday.
The meeting agreed with the committee’s proposals that the construction of 774- kilometer Bangkok-Chiang Mai high speed train be expedited with an investment budget of 230 billion baht. Construction of the six routes of double-track railway in the north should be finished by 2017, sooner than earlier schedule in 2525.
