The transportation ministry’s ambiguities regarding payment plans for users are still a mystery.
PUBLISHED: 28 Jun 2024 at 16: 15
By September of next year, a plan to cover the charges on all of Greater Bangkok’s mass transit outlines at 20 ringgit is expected to be finished, with the Green, Gold, and Airport Rail Website lines being the last ones on the list.
Transport Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit announced on Friday that the novel fare schedule would include all roads by that period.
Just two weeks after the secretary declared the government would implement the 20-baht cover on all of the Greater Bangkok road networks by March 2026, his new prediction was unveiled. He addressed the Common Ticketing System Policy Committee on June 13th.
Mr. Suriya wants the low ticket scheme to increase ridership on the large transit lines and ensure that they are available to everyone.
Greater Bangkok has eight traces in activity. According to the secretary, the amount needed to cover lost income from the suffer cap on all eight would be around 8 billion ringgit, who did not specify whether the amount may be one-time or monthly payments.
He added that new lines that will be in operation after this plan must state in the agreement that they will only accumulate up to 20 baht for each fare.
The Purple and Red outlines were the first to introduce the 20-baht solution price cap in September of last year. The number of users on the two ranges combined increased by 18 % to 20.86 million, according to statistics from mid-October to the end of May.
By September 2025, the next three companies, the Green, Gold, and Airport Rail Link, are anticipated to adopt. The Pink and Yellow ranges will be added around June of next year.
The minister promised to submit the draft bill to the government for approval so it could become law and take effect the following year.
The State Railway of Thailand, Bangkok Mass Transit System Plc, Bangkok Expressway and Metro Plc ( Bem ), and three other companies run the mass transit lines. Each has a unique money-collecting method. Charges began at 16 or 17 ringgit, depending on the route.
Mr. Suriya hoped that the government would use the users ‘ losses to pay for the losses they suffer from the yearly ticket sales from the MRTA and the Energy Conservation and Promotion Fund.
The users of the Greater Bangkok mass transit ranges are the MRTA and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.
The minister claimed that until the 20-baht cap fare is in place, Bem is also able to raise prices. After case acceptance this month, the new Blue Line fare scheme, which starts on July 3 and runs from 17 to 45 baht, will begin.