The governor said the flat fare for a BRT journey will triple from THB5 to THB15. He carried on by saying that although the decision had been made to keep the service, one had not been made on who would operate it. The BRT comprises 12 stations with terminuses at Ratchpruek and Sathorn.
When the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration first announced it was scrapping the BRT, residents and commuters in the part of southern Bangkok it passes through slammed the move. They said it would leave them with slow moving buses as the only way of getting to Skytrain stations.
The BTS Group operates the line and a spokesperson said the firm could maybe reduce the annual fees from the THB200 million it currently charges. Governor Kwanmuang told the reporters he considered that way too expensive for running a few buses and THB170 million was a more realistic figure.
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Bangkok Bus Rapid Transit line gets reprieve
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Bangkok’s governor says the city’s sole Bus Rapid Transit line is not heading for the scrap heap after all. Aswin Kwanmuang told media reporters the service will not be axed as planned next month and instead fares will go up to cover a shortfall in income.