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Post by rubl on May 30, 2017 10:16:08 GMT 7
Well, the BRT link from Satorn to Ratchapruk is still there but since yesterday the price went up to 15 Baht. For me the trip Satorn - Nararam3 trippled in price, from 5 to 15 Baht! So far I didn't see a diminishing crowd though. Might be the rainy seasons, or just schools and universities opened again  |
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Post by me on May 30, 2017 10:38:53 GMT 7
Well, the BRT link from Satorn to Ratchapruk is still there but since yesterday the price went up to 15 Baht. For me the trip Satorn - Nararam3 trippled in price, from 5 to 15 Baht! So far I didn't see a diminishing crowd though. Might be the rainy seasons, or just schools and universities opened again if the crowd did not diminish it seems they have priced it right. try 25b and see if that is better. |
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Post by smokie36 on Jun 1, 2017 20:27:46 GMT 7
I hope prices rise....I hate having to stand.
Gawd the early days on the BTS were the best.
All the Thais were polite and lovely and then those TVF people heard about its existence and spoiled it.
Fnaar fnaar old gits blah blah.
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Post by rubl on Jul 23, 2017 21:04:13 GMT 7
Two months after the price hike I've not seen a lessening of ridership. If anything busses seem fuller. Mind you, during a larger part of the day the frequency has been reduced from every 10 minutes to every 15 minutes. At 'rush hour' still every five or ten minutes with even a few short trip busses moved in. Those only go to Nararam3 and turn back to Sathon, catering to students of TechnicKrungthep.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 11:01:27 GMT 7
Two months after the price hike I've not seen a lessening of ridership. If anything busses seem fuller. Mind you, during a larger part of the day the frequency has been reduced from every 10 minutes to every 15 minutes. At 'rush hour' still every five or ten minutes with even a few short trip busses moved in. Those only go to Nararam3 and turn back to Sathon, catering to students of TechnicKrungthep. 15 baht sounds cheap. We could be doing with some form of MRT/BRT in Chiang Mai. Need to wipe out the transport mafia here, they're getting out of control, in particular the tuk-tuks who now reckon ( in too many cases ) that 150 baht is the starting price. Some might thing it's unnecessary in Chiang Mai - and I could see an argument against it now - come back in ten years ( or less ) and this city will be grid-locked. Btw, I was reading there are 2,500 licensed somgthaews in the city - at least five hundred too many. It's common to see ten of them lined up at traffic lights around Nimman, lucky to have five passengers between them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 11:08:28 GMT 7
I reckon a BRT line from Kad San Gaew to Chiang Mai Zoo would be a great start. Straight over the Maya junction, dropping people at Maya, dropping people at CMU, and dropping people at a songthaew station for Doi Suthep, just below the statue to the monk that created the road up.
It doesn't need to be on the scale of the BKK BRT, a light railway with one track would be enough, for all the time it would take to traverse that distance.
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 24, 2017 11:44:29 GMT 7
Two months after the price hike I've not seen a lessening of ridership. If anything busses seem fuller. Mind you, during a larger part of the day the frequency has been reduced from every 10 minutes to every 15 minutes. At 'rush hour' still every five or ten minutes with even a few short trip busses moved in. Those only go to Nararam3 and turn back to Sathon, catering to students of TechnicKrungthep. 15 baht sounds cheap. We could be doing with some form of MRT/BRT in Chiang Mai. Need to wipe out the transport mafia here, they're getting out of control, in particular the tuk-tuks who now reckon ( in too many cases ) that 150 baht is the starting price. Some might thing it's unnecessary in Chiang Mai - and I could see an argument against it now - come back in ten years ( or less ) and this city will be grid-locked. Btw, I was reading there are 2,500 licensed somgthaews in the city - at least five hundred too many. It's common to see ten of them lined up at traffic lights around Nimman, lucky to have five passengers between them. I think it was 2007 when the then governor of Chiang mai announced the city was going to buy (the now famously rare) purple buses and initiate a series of formal bus routes, the song teaw (sp) mafia association was livid at such a revolutionary idea hence negotiations were entered into. A couple of years later, following much silence on the subject, the first two routes were announced, the buses having already been purchased, reports of driver intimidation and vandalism of bus stops were reported.......fast forward to 2017 and nary a single public bus is seen, although certain tour operators do have some nice fairly new purple buses. And now I read that the tuk tuk mafia association is about to buy 150 electrically powered tuk tuks, the chances of alternate forms of public transport emerging in CM are a tad low I would guess. |
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Post by rubl on Jul 24, 2017 12:01:59 GMT 7
I reckon a BRT line from Kad San Gaew to Chiang Mai Zoo would be a great start. Straight over the Maya junction, dropping people at Maya, dropping people at CMU, and dropping people at a songthaew station for Doi Suthep, just below the statue to the monk that created the road up. It doesn't need to be on the scale of the BKK BRT, a light railway with one track would be enough, for all the time it would take to traverse that distance. Special bus lanes and (fairly) normal busses tend to be cheaper, infra structure wise, than light rail. Keep in mind that with light rail either you have street level tracks and up the electrification for propulsion, or you have elevated tracks. Both rail systems also tend to be much more disruptive during the construction phase. |
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Post by chiangmai on Jul 24, 2017 13:25:55 GMT 7
The closest we will come to mass transit trains in CM is five song teaws (sp) bolted together with the word train stenciled down the side and the names of each stop changed to read station. Although for added realism we could get the driver to wear a conductors uniform and shout "all aboard" at each stop.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 15:52:46 GMT 7
15 baht sounds cheap. We could be doing with some form of MRT/BRT in Chiang Mai. Need to wipe out the transport mafia here, they're getting out of control, in particular the tuk-tuks who now reckon ( in too many cases ) that 150 baht is the starting price. Some might thing it's unnecessary in Chiang Mai - and I could see an argument against it now - come back in ten years ( or less ) and this city will be grid-locked. Btw, I was reading there are 2,500 licensed somgthaews in the city - at least five hundred too many. It's common to see ten of them lined up at traffic lights around Nimman, lucky to have five passengers between them. I think it was 2007 when the then governor of Chiang mai announced the city was going to buy (the now famously rare) purple buses and initiate a series of formal bus routes, the song teaw (sp) mafia association was livid at such a revolutionary idea hence negotiations were entered into. A couple of years later, following much silence on the subject, the first two routes were announced, the buses having already been purchased, reports of driver intimidation and vandalism of bus stops were reported.......fast forward to 2017 and nary a single public bus is seen, although certain tour operators do have some nice fairly new purple buses. And now I read that the tuk tuk mafia association is about to buy 150 electrically powered tuk tuks, the chances of alternate forms of public transport emerging in CM are a tad low I would guess. It's 450 electric tuk tuk's. I hear a whisper of serious rebellion against the transport mafia. It seems that the Uber imbroglio has drawn the attention of some powerful LOCAL people. Who are irritated at the Isaan brigade intimidating the primarily Lanna Uber drivers. For the first time in a while, the Isaan brigade is mixing it with the Lanna middle class. They're going to mix it with the wrong individual, just as what happened at that infamous pub kicking recently. |
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