Published on January 5, 2024, at 4:00 p.m.
The Yellow and Pink Lines, the nation’s first two monorail systems, were subjected to a thorough inspection by the Thailand Consumer Council (TCC ) on Thursday.
Following two current mistakes, it was questioned whether errors were made during the program setup on the two lines.
The TCC was reacting to the incidents on the Golden Series this week and the Pink Line last month.
A part of the Pink Line’s wire bridge broke free from its frame on December 24 and fell onto a city, causing damage to some parked cars along Tiwanon Road in Nonthaburi. Services on the line were halted as a result of the affair.
However, on Tuesday night, a Golden Series train’s link vehicle fell out and landed on Thepharak Road below before bouncing and colliding with another vehicle.
According to a statement released on the TCC’s site on Thursday, both situations have raised safety concerns.
The situations appear to have been the first of their kind on a rail system anywhere in the world, according to Assoc Prof. Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut of the TCC sub-committee on travel and cars.
He cited results from his own studies into different monorail systems to support his observation, which showed that there were no other identical incidents taking place in different nations.
The two businesses hired to install the Yellow and Pink rail systems must now conduct a thorough assessment of both systems in order to demonstrate their safety, he said.
Given that both of these lines were recently installed and started operating, he said,” I do n’t believe the issue is with maintenance on these two lines.”
In order to stop a train from falling to the ground in the event that one is inadvertently dislodged from the individual concrete beam along which it runs, he even advised both companies to think about installing metallic netting in specific locations.
He added that based on his own knowledge, rail trains in other nations do certainly rock and rattle as much as they do in Thailand and that this type of protection system is already in place in those nations that started using them before Thailand.
Both the Yellow Line project’s concessionaire, Eastern Bangkok Monorail Co., and the Pink Line Project, a concessionary, said they were also looking into their particular situations.