Author: Peter Carlisle

Bangkok’s City Hall prepares to consider future of skytrain Study to set out all the options as existing concession will expire in 2029 Bangkok city officials are preparing to consider the future of the skytrain system, as the expiry of the existing 30-year concession is just four years away. The Traffic and Transportation Department expects […]

Thailand’s High-Speed Rail Project Faces Fresh Delays After Political Shift Thailand’s three-airport high-speed rail project has hit yet another delay following the House dissolution, which pushed the government into caretaker status and blocked further action on key contractual amendments. The ambitious project, designed to link Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi, and U-Tapao airports, has stalled as the […]

Thailand’s Transport Ministry maps out 160-billion-baht buyback of four rail lines under 30-year O&M model Transport Ministry plans a 160-billion-baht buyback of four PPP rail lines to create single ownership under MRTA, cap fares and enable a seamless common ticket The government is preparing a 160-billion-baht plan to buy back concessions on four major electric […]

Thai Cabinet to decide on revision of 3-airport high-speed rail contract, says Phiphat Transport Ministry will ask the Cabinet to decide whether to amend the high-speed rail linking three airports contract, warning that changes could expose the state to lawsuits from losing bidders over altered project conditions. Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn […]

The greening of power – how Thailand’s Government Complex has transformed into a climate-resilient, human-centric public space ‘It is full of concrete. Dry and barren.” That was his first impression of Government Complex on Chaeng Watthana Road when Nalikatibhag Sangsnit took the helm at Dhanarak Asset Development (DAD). Supervised by the Treasury Department, DAD, a […]