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Report from Bangkok Post dated Saturday 24 November 2007 :-
Ministry changes Red Line design plan - Will go undergound at Chitralada Palace
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The Transport Ministry has revised a construction plan to keep a new railway section that will pass the Chitralada Palace below ground level while the other parts of the railway will be elevated. According to Pranot Suriya, deputy director of the Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, the Bang Sue-Phaya Thai-Makkasan railway section was earlier designed to be totally elevated.
But as the section will pass the Chitralada Palace, its design will be revised to be built in an ''open trench'', which will not be refilled with earth above the tunnel roof, to keep the line underground where it passes the palace.
The transport policy office hired a consultancy in September to work out the detailed design of the electric railway section. According to the design that will be finished next February, the total cost of the section is estimated at 25 billion baht.
The Bang Sue-Phaya Thai-Makkasan railway section is part of the inner-city Red Line that will stretch 19 km from Bang Sue via Makkasan to Hua Mak.
The inner-city Red Line will mostly be built above ground along the existing railway tracks of Bangkok. It will be the central part of the whole Red Line network that will reach Rangsit in the north of Bangkok, Taling Chan in the west, the Hua Lamphong railway terminus of Bangkok and Maha Chai in the southwest and connect in Makkasan with the Airport Rail Link to Suvarnabhumi airport.
The construction of the Bang Sue-Phaya Thai-Makkasan railway section should start late next year. It will serve 200,000 passengers a day and the whole Red Line network should carry 700,000 people a day.
Meanwhile, about 100 people whose property was expropriated for the Purple Line rallied at the Transport Ministry yesterday to demand quick compensation.
The group, led by Gen Kittisak Ratthaprasert, said the Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA), the Purple Line developer, finished the expropriation survey in January this year but has not paid the compensation yet.
The MRTA has not even set the minimum rate of compensation for the expropriation. The delay is preventing property owners from having access to new funds to buy new residences. Some property owners lost the deposits they placed earlier for new residences as they have not received the compensation.
The group said that the expropriation law required the MRTA to complete the compensation within 180 days from its expropriation survey and the deadline fell in July this year.
The people vowed to raise their issue with the Administrative Court if the Transport Ministry does not respond to them within this month.
The 23-kilometre-long Purple Line will stretch from Bang Sue to Bang Bua Thong and Bang Yai districts of Nonthaburi province.
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Posted on: 2:44 am on Nov. 24, 2007
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BoKon
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Does anyone know the name of the underground station closest for Posidan/Copa Cababna on Ratchasdapisak?
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Posted on: 10:13 am on Nov. 26, 2007
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bkkz
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The best way to get to Poseidon is by subway (MRT) and get off at Sutthisan Station via exit #4 and walk back.
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Posted on: 11:52 am on Nov. 26, 2007
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BoKon
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Thanks BK. I will put it to good use next time.
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Posted on: 10:26 am on Nov. 30, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Tuesday 18 December 2007 :-
BTS to extend operating hours on New Year's Eve
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The Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS) Skytrain will extend its operating hours until 2am on New Year's Eve to accommodate party-goers, said BTS executive Anat Abhabhirom Tuesday.
The extended hours of both the Mor ChitOn Nut route and the Saphan TaksinNational Stadium route were expected to accommodate nearly 100,000 partygoers to join the Bangkok Countdown at Central World as well as party-goers at other malls and companies along the routes.
Anat explained the BTS would not operate 24 hours on December 31 because most parties would end a little after midnight, and giving an extra two hours to get home should be sufficient.
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Posted on: 6:56 am on Dec. 18, 2007
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Any news on when the On-Nut - Bang-Na extention is to be finished? I hear stories of anything from 2009 to 2011/12.
I ask as I have bought a new apartment clost to one of the new stations and I move in late 2009. Would make life a lot easier if the BTS was finished then, but as Trink used to say (TIT) This is Thailand
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Posted on: 2:23 am on Jan. 16, 2008
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Here is something you might not have known, but when you take the skytrain, and you are putting your coins in the ticket machine, you can use 1 baht coins! Even though the machine only shows 5 and 10 baht coins, you can use the 1 baht coin. Five 1 baht coins equals one 5 baht coin. Ten 1 baht coins equals one 10 baht coin.
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Posted on: 6:07 pm on Jan. 17, 2008
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Quote: from BobFiveHead on 8:22 pm on Jan. 17, 2008
Five 1 baht coins equals one 5 baht coin. Ten 1 baht coins equals one 10 baht coin.
Are you sure about that?
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Posted on: 7:39 pm on Jan. 17, 2008
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Quote: from BobFiveHead on 10:22 am on Jan. 18, 2008
Five 1 baht coins equals one 5 baht coin. Ten 1 baht coins equals one 10 baht coin.
Sounds complicated... how about if I have twelve 1-baht coins instead of in nominations of five and ten? How much do I have then?
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Posted on: 4:30 pm on Jan. 19, 2008
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 21 January 2008 :-
Subway to profit by 2011 - Passenger numbers still well below target
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The SET-listed subway operator Bangkok Metro Plc (BMCL) expects to break even by 2011, even though this year it would likely fall well short of its original target of 300,000 daily passengers.
Managing director Sombat Kitjalaksana said the delay in extending Bangkok's rail network stemmed from lower-than-expected passenger growth over the past three years.
The subway, which runs from Hua Lamphong to Bang Sue with a total distance of 20 kilometres, currently carries 195,000 passengers daily. BMCL hopes for 210,000 daily passengers by the end of the year.
''Despite the high oil prices, which started since last year, we have yet to see the phenomenon of a big number of Bangkok commuters switching from road to rail transport,'' Mr Sombat said.
''That's mainly because the current network is limited and there are not enough to take them from one place to another for their journey. If we have enough coverage of the network, they will absolutely opt to use the rail lines no matter whether petrol prices are cheap or high.''
If it reaches 210,000 daily passengers this year, Mr Sombat said BMCL would be able to generate enough revenue to cover operating costs but not the interest on its outstanding 11-billion-baht debt.
After three years of operation, the company he accumulated losses of several billion baht, Mr Sombat said.
He declined to offer details.
''It's not until we reach 300,000 daily passengers, which will hopefully happen in the next two to three years, that we would be able to make a profit from the operations,'' he said.
BMCL and Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTS), which operates two Skytrain elevated rail lines, can carry a combined 600,000 passengers a day.
With an investment of 150 billion baht, the government plans to add five more rail routes in the capital to take cars off Bangkok's congested streets, improve air quality and cut oil import bills.
Following years of delay, at least two of the five routes are targeted to start construction this year: the Blue Line from Hua Lamphong to Bang Khae and the Purple Line from Bang Sue to Tha Phra.
BMCL, with a 25-year concession on the subway, is favoured by transport officials to operate the new routes, possibly through a joint venture with the state-owned Mass Rapid Transit Authority (MRTA).
Mr Sombat said BMCL was ready for any option for the new lines. He said the company already had facilities, including depots and control rooms for the subway, that could save investment cots for developing new routes.
BMCL also has prepared 1.5 billion baht to buy new trains to accommodate more passengers from existing routes and possible new lines.
''The extended routes would bring more passengers to the existing network, enabling us to achieve our ridership target more easily,'' he said.
''The projects are feasible in terms of economic benefits. Investors would be ready to take part and it would not be difficult to mobilise funds.''
Mr Sombat said BMCL and BTS already signed a memorandum of understanding for a joint-ticketing system for the elevated and underground trains to lure more passengers. Under the plan, a joint venture would handle ticket management, financial clearing and promotions.
The single ticket is expected to be launched within this year. In the future it would cover other public transport systems, including the Airport Rail Link, he said.
To generate more revenue, Mr Sombat said BMCL planned to utilise more commercial areas at its 18 subway stations.
So far, only the Sukhumvit and Phahon Yothin stations use commercial space out of nine stations with a combined space of 20,000 square metres, he said.
The Chatuchak station would be opened for retailers this month, he added. Retail sales now account for only 5% of BMCL's total revenue, which was approximately one billion baht in 2006.
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Posted on: 8:25 pm on Jan. 20, 2008
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