Post by mangomoney on Feb 7, 2017 16:25:33 GMT 7
City Hall to end Bus Rapid Transit service
Bangkok's loss-ridden and unpopular Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service will get the chop at the end of April, seven years after it was launched.
City engineers and councillors had studied the service and shared the decision to terminate it.
The BRT was carrying only about 25,000 passengers a day, mainly people who were not its original target group of commuters, Bangkok deputy governor Amnoy Nimmano said on Monday.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration originally intended the 15.9km route between Sathon and Rajaphruek areas would feed commuters to the BTS elevated railway. Actually, most BRT passengers were students and elderly people who were eligible for discount fares and did not use the skytrain, Pol Lt Gen Amnoy said.
The BRT service was running at an annual loss of about 200 million baht to the BMA.
more...
www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1193832/city-hall-to-end-bus-rapid-transit-service
Bangkok's loss-ridden and unpopular Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) service will get the chop at the end of April, seven years after it was launched.
City engineers and councillors had studied the service and shared the decision to terminate it.
The BRT was carrying only about 25,000 passengers a day, mainly people who were not its original target group of commuters, Bangkok deputy governor Amnoy Nimmano said on Monday.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration originally intended the 15.9km route between Sathon and Rajaphruek areas would feed commuters to the BTS elevated railway. Actually, most BRT passengers were students and elderly people who were eligible for discount fares and did not use the skytrain, Pol Lt Gen Amnoy said.
The BRT service was running at an annual loss of about 200 million baht to the BMA.
more...
www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1193832/city-hall-to-end-bus-rapid-transit-service
