page_title: Bangkok–Chonburi bid for the 2030 Summer Youth Olympics
section_title: Transportation and infrastructure
hierarchical_section_title: Bangkok–Chonburi bid for the 2030 Summer Youth Olympics / Bid details / Transportation and infrastructure
caption_attribution_description: English: Bang Sue Central Station in Bangkok, Thailand.
context_page_description: Bangkok-Chonburi is an official bid for the Summer Youth Olympics by the city of Bangkok and the province of Chonburi and the National Olympic Committee of Thailand. The bid was originally made for the 2026 Games, but after the postponement of the 2022 Summer Youth Olympics in Dakar to 2026, the earliest Thailand could host the games became 2030. It was the second time of Thailand and the city of Bangkok bid the Youth Olympic Games after conceding to Singapore in the bidding for the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
context_section_description: Situated at Eastern Economic Corridor, Chonburi Province have progressed many infrastructural projects and seamless operation of transportation in providing vital linkages for air, land, rail and sea routes. The venues of the 2026 Summer Youth Olympics will be served by Don Mueang International Airport (40,758,148 passengers) in Pathum Thani Province, Suvarnabhumi Airport (63,378,923 passengers) in Samut Prakan Province, and U-Tapao International Airport (1,860,794 passengers) in Rayong Province. In December 2019, U-Tapao International Airport opened the second terminal that have increased the total passenger capacity to 5 million over 5 years. The next phase of local airport is to establish the third terminal that will have increased the total passenger capacity to 60 million over 20 years. 
  By 2020, the Motorway 7 third extension will have operated that link Pattaya to U-Tapao Airport. It will link seamlessly between Suvarnabhumi Airport and U-Tapao Airport.
  By 2023, the Eastern High-speed rail line will have operated that will link Don Mueang and Suvarnabhumi with 160 km per hour (Today is Airport Rail Link) and will link Suvarnabhumi and U-Tapao with 250 km per hour. It would be a compact Youth Olympic Games, with travel times of less than 30 minutes between Chonburi Province and Bangkok.
caption: Bang Sue Central Station under construction in January 2019.
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