Ride fares to start from fourteen baht
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to start charging fares around the extension sections of the particular BTS Green Series in mid-September. The maximum fare will be capped at 59 baht per ride.
The Mo Chit-Khu Khot plus Bearing-Samut Prakan sections have been offered liberated to passengers for almost two years.
Deputy Bangkok governor Wisanu Subsompon said the fare for riding the Green Series train on some of these two sections alone will start from 14 baht while the maximum fare within the exact same extension will be forty-four baht per ride.
The fare is the same rate that presently applies to the Eco-friendly Line’s previous expansion known as the first expansion, he said.
The Eco-friendly Line comprises the Silom and Sukhumvit Lines. The first extension included Wong Wian Yai to Beat Wa stations to the Silom Line and Nut to Keeping on the Sukhumvit Line.
Just like on the Green Line’s first extension, whenever passengers enter any of the two new sections of the second extension, they will be charged 14 baht. The fare will increase two baht for each station, he stated.
The maximum fare per trip for traversing the entire Green Line will still be capped at fifty nine baht, he mentioned.
The particular Bangkok Metropolitan Management (BMA) will now bargain with the Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc (BTSC), the operator of the Green Series, about the possibility of quitting collecting a 16-baht connecting fee for every passenger when they link from the second extension to the main Eco-friendly Line, he mentioned.
When the BTSC doesn’t agree with the exemption, the BMA will have to carry on shouldering this particular cost for Green Line passengers, he said.
Presently, the BMA at this point provides Krungthep Thanakhom (KT), its business arm, with a subsidy of about 6. nine billion baht annually to pay the BTSC for the train link service of the second extension on the Green Line, he stated.
The BMA and Bangkok Council have also setup a joint working group to write down ideas what they should do regarding the 30-year renewal from the concession (2029-2059) given to BTSC earlier under an purchase by the now-defunct Nationwide Council for Peacefulness and Order, he said.