A sky train cometh
August 17, 2007
The Bangkok Mass Transmit System (BTS) will build two electricity sky train lines in Cambodia’s Phnom Penh City, Chinese News Agency quoted local media as saying on Wednesday.
BTS plans to invest 500 million U.S. dollars to this project, May Vuthy, representative of the BTS Company to Cambodia, was quoted by Cambodian-language magazine Star as saying.
One seven-km sky train line is from Japanese-Cambodian Friendship Bridge to Monivong Bridge, May Vuthy said, adding that another eight km line is from the Central Market to Steung Meanchey, the garment industry hub.
The Cambodian government and BTS from Thailand have studied about the project and they will cooperate to build it, the magazine added.
According to the plan, BTS will build the project from 2008 to 2011, May Vuthy said, adding that the two-way sky train lines will run from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. with about one dollar for a ticket.
That is, this will be awesome after four long grueling years of traffic and construction hell — because that’s exactly what Monivong Blvd. is going to be. Viva la progress!
UPDATE: The Cambodia Daily calls the BTS plan a pipe dream, and says that plans are still in the idea stage. Xinhua has the complete story.
August 17, 2007 at 7:11 pm
‘The VONIRAIL’?
August 19, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Sounds more like a Shelbyville idea…
August 20, 2007 at 1:07 am
Um, I don’t get either of these comments.
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