Vehicle users argue that agencies may concentrate on restoring the condition of the buses.
PUBLISHED: 25 Jul 2024 at 12: 57
Passengers who use open buses publicly expressed their anger over route modifications that caused several on Thursday mornings to experience chaos.
Vehicle riders in Greater Bangkok discovered themselves perplexed and disappointed by the new routes, which they had not known about before their trips. As a result of the changes, passengers were left waiting for their regular buses, which always arrived, longer wait times for new services.
Complaints flooded the Facebook pages of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority ( BMTA ), the Transport Ministry and Bangkokbusclub.com.
” Anyone who uses BMTA buses now might be a little perplexed. Please check course statistics carefully”, the Bangkokbusclub.com warned its fans.
The BMTA referred to the transformation of the bus lines as the opening day of its first day on Thursday. The Ministry of Transport, the state entity, handed over a hundred routes to fresh private providers, along with modifications to some path numbers.
The BMTA even updated the roads for several lines throughout Bangkok and its environs and changed the vehicle figures. For example, Bus No. 101 has been changed from Rama II Road to Phra Pradaeng pier in Samut Prakan and is now referred to as 101 ( 4-5 ).
On the three Facebook pages, several riders complained that they were late to work, paid more for their tickets, or waited in naught for their modified vehicle line.
” Where is van No. 509″? one naysayer under the name of Nel Sirirat wrote in Bangkokbusclub.com. ” I’ve got a headache when my life now suffers”.
” This is a disaster”, Pup Phoon said. ” I had a long wait. When it came, it’s now packed. I do n’t know if I have the energy left to work”.
Meedum Nut, a Twitter users by the name of Meedum Nut, complained:” I had to read the new course information posted on the bus’s system to see what places it goes. By the time I finished reading it, the vehicle was  , leaving”.
” Van routes from the cities should not be scrapped. On the BMTA’s social media page, Ch JeajJeab remarked,” Please listen to the voices of those who ca n’t afford public transportation.
” The ones who ride the bus do n’t had a chance to give opinions, while those who make the changes not really drive the bus”, Dom Dom said on the agency’s Facebook page. ” Why did you change routes on lines that are already popular” ? ,
Some people argued that the BMTA should concentrate on restoring the bus’s deteriorating problem.
If everything goes as planned, assistant transport minister Manaporn Charoensri promised a better bus fleet on Wednesday, promising that the BMTA would request cabinet approval to book energy buses by February of next year.
The BMTA now operates 2, 884 regular and air-conditioned cars, serving 700, 000 people a moment.