Background
The Cabinet on the meeting on March 9th, 2010 acknowledged and agreed on the resolutions of the Land Traffic Management Committee meeting on February 8th, 2010 with Bangkok Metropolitan’s Railway Transportation Master Plan. The committee also assigned MRTA to implement the master plan in 10 years (operated within 2019) with 7 lines of the total distance of 154 kilometers. This includes MRT Purple Line Project (Tao Pun - Rat Burana Section) which is under MRTA’s responsibility.
Later, the Cabinet on the meeting on July 25th, 2017 assigned MRTA to begin construction MRT Purple Line Project: Tao Pun - Rat Burana (Kanchanaphisek Road) Section’s civil works with the budget of 101,112 million Baht.