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 expressed anger over path modifications that caused some on Thursday morning’s commute in the captibal to be chaotic.
Bus riders in Greater Bangkok discovered themselves perplexed and irritated by the new routes because they had not known about them beforehand to 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.
” All riding BMTA buses now may be a little perplexed. Please check course statistics carefully”, Bangkokbusclub.com warned its fans.
The BMTA referred to the “reform of the vehicle ranges” as the opening time of its first day on Thursday. A few routes were handed over to fresh private operators by the state-owned company under the Ministry of Transportation, along with some path numbers.
Additionally, the BMTA altered the roads for some ranges throughout Bangkok and its environs. For example, Bus No. 101 has been changed from Rama II Road to Phra Pradaeng pier in Samut Prakan province and is now referred to as 101 ( 4-5 ).
In Bangkok, individuals wait for a vehicle in the morning. ( Photo: Somchai Poomlard )
Many riders reported their unsatisfaction on the three Social sites, saying they arrived 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 on Bangkokbusclub.com. ” I’ve got a pain 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 where it goes. By the time I finished reading it, the vehicle was  , leaving”.
” Van routes from the cities should not be scrapped. Please pay attention to the voices of those who ca n’t afford to take public buses or taxis,” Ch JeajJeab wrote on the BMTA’s social media page.
” 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.
Deputy Transport Minister Manaporn Charoensri promised a better vehicle fleet on Wednesday, stating that the BMTA would pursue case approval to hire energy buses by February of next year and that it would negotiate a deal with a provider in March if everything goes as planned.
The BMTA now operates 2, 884 regular and air-conditioned cars, serving 700, 000 persons a day.