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The M-Map details plans for additional rapid transit lines in Bangkok Metropolitan Region. The first M-Map plan was endorsed by the Commission for the Management of Land Traffic in 2010. [ 8 ] It designated eight primary routes, consisting of two commuter rail lines, an airport rail link , and five rapid transit lines, as well as five feeder lines.
A typical BTS station platform, showing platform screen doors. Plans for mass transit in Bangkok began in the early 1980s. An early version of the Skytrain project was known as the Lavalin Skytrain because it was designed using the Vancouver SkyTrain as a model, adopting technology developed by SNC-Lavalin. Due to political interference, the ...
750 V DC third rail. Top speed. 80 km/h (50 mph) The Metropolitan Rapid Transit or MRT is a mass rapid transit system serving the Bangkok Metropolitan Region in Thailand. The MRT system comprises two fully operational rapid transit lines (Blue and Purple) and two fully operational monorail line (Yellow and Pink), with another rapid transit line ...
Bangkok Mass Transit System. Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited ( BTSC, Thai: บริษัทระบบขนส่งมวลชนกรุงเทพ จำกัด (มหาชน)) is a Thai transport company, best known as the operator of Bangkok's BTS Skytrain. It is a majority-owned subsidiary of BTS Group ...
The MRT Yellow Line ( Thai: รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายสีเหลือง) or MRT Nakkhara Phiphat Line ( Thai: รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายนัคราพิพัฒน์) is an elevated monorail line in Bangkok and Samut Prakan Province, Thailand, part of the MRT rapid transit system. The ...
The Sukhumvit Line (Thai: รถไฟฟ้า สายสุขุมวิท) is an elevated metro rail line of the BTS Skytrain in Bangkok, Thailand.From the central Siam Station, where it connects with the Silom Line, the line runs both northwards along Phaya Thai and Phahon Yothin Roads to Khu Khot in Lam Luk Ka District in Pathum Thani, and eastwards along Rama I, Phloen Chit and ...
Operation. [edit] The 16-station Purple Line runs from Khlong Bang Phai to Tao Poon and has a carrying capacity of 30,000 people in each direction per hour. The line operates daily from 06:00-24:00 with an interval of under 6 minutes during peak hours and 9 minutes during off-peak hours. [ 35 ]
The MRT Blue line connects major business, residential and cultural areas of Bangkok. In late 2019, the average daily ridership was 400,000. [2] In mid 2021, during a COVID-19 3rd wave in Bangkok ridership plummeted to between 76,000 - 116,000 per weekday. [3]