Land eyed for train project 'being used'
Wing 46 insisted yesterday that it was already using the land in Phitsanulok's Muang district that the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning was eyeing.
The office wants to use the land for a yard to park the Bangkok-Phitsanulok high-speed trains as well as a community park, athletics field and demonstration garden for agricultural self-sufficiency.
Group Captain Thakoon Nakhonthap, deputy commander of Wing 46, led the media to inspect the area to show that his unit was occupying and making use of it. It was not abandoned as claimed, he said.
A source said the military airport’s jet-fuel tanks were lined up along the railway while a warehouse for explosives was reportedly located 2 to 3km away. The planning office had held two public hearings on the high-speed-rail project this year and had selected three possible sites for a train station – near Beung Phra Train Station, near Phitsanulok Train Station and a 400-rai area along the Phitsanu-lok-Beung Phra railroad that Wing 46 claimed it still needed.
