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MRT Light Blue Line
The Light Blue Line (Din Daeng – Sathon) is a planned monorail line to be built in Bangkok, Thailand. Its path runs along a north–south axis. This line would link the Din Daeng housing community areas, Bangkok City Hall 2, Makkasan Station (for the Suvarnabhumi Airport Rail Link), and the business area along Sathon Road. The total distance of the route is approximately with 9 stations and an estimated 320,000 passengers per day. The line was tentatively planned to be completed by 2029, but was deferred in 2011 by the government. In 2013, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration took over responsibility for the Light Blue line project. , there is no plan to build this line. Progress The Yingluck Shinawatra-led Pheu Thai government, elected in July 2011, decided not to pursue plans to continue the Grey Line and the Light Blue Line, citing that the lines would not be feasible within their 4-year, 10-lines priority plan. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) was inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangkok Mass Rapid Transit
The Metropolitan Rapid Transit or MRT is a mass rapid transit system serving the Bangkok Metropolitan Region in Thailand. The MRT system comprises two rapid transit lines, with a further three lines (one rapid transit line and two monorail lines) currently under construction and due to open in 2022. The MRT Blue Line, officially the ''Chaloem Ratchamongkhon Line'', between Hua Lamphong and Bang Sue was the first to open in 2004 as Bangkok's second metro system. The MRT Blue line is officially known in Thai as ''rotfaifa mahanakhon'' (รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร) or "metropolitan electric train", but it is more commonly called ''rotfai taidin'' (รถไฟใต้ดิน), literally, "underground train". The second MRT line MRT Purple Line, officially the ''Chalong Ratchadham Line'', opened on 6 August 2016 and connected Tao Poon with Khlong Bang Phai in Nonthaburi in the northwest of Greater Bangkok. It was the first mass transit line to extend outside Bangkok. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan In Bangkok Metropolitan Region
The Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan in Bangkok Metropolitan Region, or M-Map, is the latest version in a series of Thai government plans for the development of an urban rail transit network serving the Greater Bangkok area. It was drafted under the care of the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning (OTP) of the Ministry of Transport. Early versions (Old plans) Mass Rapid Transit Systems Master Plan (MTMP) The first version of the plan, endorsed by the cabinet on 27 September 1994 and to be implemented from 1995 to 2011, consisted of an extension of to the three systems already in progress (the MRT Blue Line, the Sukhumvit and Silom lines of the BTS Skytrain and the Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System (BERTS)), which would have had a combined length of . Urban Rail Transportation Master Plan in Bangkok and Surrounding Areas (URMAP) Following the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the cancellation of the BERTS, a system totalling to begin in 2001 was proposed, to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SRT Light Red Line
The SRT Light Red Line, or Nakhon Withi Line ( th, รถไฟชานเมือง นครวิถี) is part of the SRT Red Lines suburban railway system serving the greater Bangkok Metropolitan Region running for 15 km between Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal and Taling Chan. The completed line will run east–west from Sala Ya in Phutthamonthon District of Nakhon Pathom Province to Hua Mak Railway Station in Bangkok. The segment from Taling Chan to Bang Son previously opened for limited, free trial service between 5 December 2012 and 13 January 2014 with only 12 services a day until all services were fully suspended due to the lack of rolling stock. After a much delayed completion of electrification of the line and the construction of Bang Sue Grand Station, the line finally opened for trial operations on 2 August 2021. Full commercial services commenced on 29 November 2021. A 15 km extension of the line from Taling Chan to Salaya has been delayed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airport Rail Link (Bangkok)
The Airport Rail Link (ARL) ( th, รถไฟฟ้าแอร์พอร์ต เรล ลิงก์) is an express and commuter rail line in Bangkok, Thailand. The line provides an airport rail link from Suvarnabhumi Airport, via Makkasan Station, to Phaya Thai station in central Bangkok. Most of the line is on a viaduct over the main eastern railway. It is owned by State Railway of Thailand (SRT) and, since 2021, operated by Asia Era One Company Limited. The -long Airport Rail Link opened for service on 23 August 2010. History The airport link contract was signed in January 2005, and construction began in July 2005. The line was built by a consortium of B.Grimm, STECON, and Siemens. The cost of the project was 25.9 billion baht. The line is built largely along the same alignment as the failed Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System (BERTS) project, which was started by Hopewell Holdings and ceased construction in 1997, when only 10 percent of the project had been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTS Silom Line
The BTS Silom line ( th, รถไฟฟ้า สายสีลม) or Dark Green line, is an elevated rapid transit line of the BTS Skytrain in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), a subsidiary of BTS Group Holdings, under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The Silom Line which serves Silom and Sathon Roads, the central business district of Bangkok, terminates at National Stadium and Bang Wa. The line is 14.67 km in length and consists of 14 stations. Route Alignment It runs eastward from the National Stadium Station in Pathum Wan District over Rama I Road and interchanges with the Sukhumvit line at Siam BTS station, then turns southward, following Ratchadamri, Si Lom, Narathiwat Ratchanakharin and Sathon Roads to Taksin Bridge where it crosses the Chao Phraya River to the Thonburi side of Bangkok and Wong Wian Yai. It continues west along the Ratchapruek rd corridor before it terminates at Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTS Sukhumvit Line
The Sukhumvit line ( th, รถไฟฟ้า สายสุขุมวิท) or Light Green line, 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 Sukhumvit Roads, through Bang Na District to Kheha Station in Samut Prakan. BTS daily ridership (2019) is 740,000 passengers per day. History The first part of the line opened in December 1999 and consisted of seventeen stations from Mo Chit to On Nut. Currently, there are 47 stations in operation for more than 50 km from origin to destination. Its formal name is The Elevated Train in Commemoration of HM the King's 6th Cycle Birthday 1st line ( th, รถไฟฟ้าเฉลิมพระเกียรติ 6 รอบพระชนมพรรษา สา ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BTS Skytrain
The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain ( th, รถไฟฟ้าบีทีเอส '' TS'), is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System PCL (BTSC), a subsidiary of BTS Group Holdings, under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) which owns the lines. The system consists of 62 stations along three lines with a combined route length of . The BTS Sukhumvit Line running northwards and south-eastwards, terminating at Khu Khot and Kheha respectively. The BTS Silom Line which serves Silom and Sathon Roads, the central business district of Bangkok, terminates at National Stadium and Bang Wa. The Gold Line people mover runs from Krung Thon Buri to Klong San and serves Iconsiam. The lines interchange at Siam station and Krung Thon Buri. The system is formally known as "The Elevated Train in Commemoration of HM the King's 6th Cycle Birthday" (). Besides the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Yellow Line
The MRT Yellow Line is an elevated mass rapid transit line currently under construction in Bangkok and Samut Prakan Province, Thailand. The 30.4 km line will have 23 stations and cost 55 billion baht. The line was originally proposed in 2005 by the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning to be a heavy rail underground line along Lat Phrao road and then elevated from Lam Sali junction to Samrong. However, it was decided in 2012 to build an elevated monorail line for the whole length in order to reduce construction costs. The MRT Yellow Line will provide mass transit along the heavily congested Lat Phrao road and Srinagarindra road corridors. The line will link 6 other lines; the MRT Blue Line, interchange with the MRT Orange Line (which is under construction), the planned MRT Grey Line and MRT Brown Lines, the Airport Rail Link (Bangkok) and finally the Sukhumvit Line, BTS Sukhumvit Line. As such, it will be an important cross city link in the middle north-eastern a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Purple Line
The MRT Purple line ( th, รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายสีม่วง) or MRT Chalong Ratchatham line ( th, รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายฉลองรัชธรรม) is Bangkok's fifth rapid transit line, following the Sukhumvit Line, Silom Line, MRT Blue Line, and Airport Rail Link. Daily ridership is 70,000.https://www.khaosod.co.th/economics/news_2933591. ''Khaosod'' ,30 September 2019 The line was opened on 6 August 2016 and is the second line of MRT system operated by BEM. The line is 23 km long, serving north-western part of Bangkok and Nonthaburi Province. History Origin Officially named the Chalong Ratchadham Line ( th, สายฉลองรัชธรรม) – "To Celebrate the Great King's Reign with Righteousness" – but informally known as the "Purple Line", the rapid transit system serves a north–south corridor in Bangkok's Mass Rapid Transit Master Plan. It incorporates an extension o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Orange Line
The MRT Orange Line ( th, รถไฟฟ้ามหานคร สายสีส้ม) is a rapid transit line of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand. When fully completed, the MRT Orange line will be 35.9 km long with 29 stations (7 stations will be elevated for 8.9 km and 22 will be underground for 27 km), including an interchange with the current Thailand Cultural Centre Station of MRT Blue Line). The line is divided into two sections; the 22.5 km Eastern section from Suwinthawong to Thailand Cultural Centre and the 2nd phase, 13.4 km Western section from Thailand Cultural Centre to Bang Khun Non. Construction of the 22.5 km Eastern Section started in June 2017. The line is scheduled to open in 2023. By the end of November 2022, construction had progressed to 98.31%. Western extension tender delayed On 3 July 2020, the MRTA released the tender for the design and construction of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Pink Line
The MRT Pink Line is an elevated mass rapid transit monorail train line under construction in Bangkok and Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. The monorail line will be long and have 30 stations. It will run in the northern part of the city from the Nonthaburi Civic Center in Pak Kret District Nonthaburi Province, Nonthaburi along the major east–west transport corridor of Chaeng Wattana and Ram Intra roads to terminate at Min Buri District, Minburi District in east Bangkok. The line is designed to link the northern areas of Bangkok and Nonthaburi by connecting with five mass transit lines. At Nonthaburi Civic Center the line interchanges with the MRT Purple Line and the proposed MRT Brown Line. The line also interchanges with the SRT Dark Red Line, the Sukhumvit Line, BTS Sukhumvit Line and the planned Grey Line (Bangkok), BMA Grey Line. At the Min Buri terminus, the line interchanges with the under construction MRT Orange Line. Construction of the MRT Pink Line began in December 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRT Grey Line
The BMA Grey Line (Watcharaphon - Thong Lo) is a planned monorail line in Bangkok, Thailand. The route would provide a vital north - south link for a distance of 16.25 km with 15 planned stations and is expected to cost 27 billion baht. The line would support the growth of residential areas around Pradit Manutham Rd and Kaset-Namawin rd corridors and is forecast to eventually have 370,000 passengers per day. The BMA Grey with interchange with other lines including the MRT Pink Line (under construction), the proposed MRT Brown Line, the MRT Yellow Line (under construction), MRT Orange Line (under construction) and BTS Sukhumvit Line. The BMA is awaiting completion of a consultants study into the project which was due to be completed by March 2022. A new EIA for the line was completed and approved by the National Environment Board in early March 2022. On 17 March 2022, the BMA held a market sounding seminer with companies interested in potentially bidding for the line and update ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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