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The Department of Rail Transport (DRT) will call on the Bangkok Mass Transit System (BTSC) to explain why it has decided to cancel monthly tickets for the BTS system, DRT director-general Kittiphan Panchan said on Monday.

BTS will adjust the schedule of skytrains and public buses in the metropolitan area to comply with a partial 14-day lockdown from Monday to contain the surging virus cases and deaths.

Property developers are directing their focus to outer Bangkok areas, especially along the Orange, Yellow and Pink Skytrain lines in 2021, a Colliers International Thailand executive said.

Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) and Northern Bangkok Monorail Co Ltd (NBM) will sign the construction contract for the Bt4.23-billion MRTA Pink Line spur between Si Rat and Muang Thong Thani stations on Tuesday.

The BTS Skytrain is offering a six-month extension on tickets due to expire between December 21 and January 30.

Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang said on Friday that the new fare ceiling of Green Line BTS Skytrain at Bt104 throughout the route is inexpensive and would be implemented from February 16 as planned unless stayed by the government.

Fares on some of the Green Line routes have been hiked by Bt3 per station.

January 15 will be the last day the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) allows commuters to use the Green Line Skytrain extension sections for free, after the sections that run from Mo Chit to Ku Kot stations on the northern route and from Bearing to Samut Prakan stations on the southern route were officially opened for public use on December 16.

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha will preside over the opening ceremony of the Skytrain Green Line extension (Mo Chit – Saphan Mai – Ku Kot) and the Gold Line monorail, which is linked to the Green Line at Krung Thon Buri station, on December 16.

The Interior Ministry will today (August 13) propose to the Cabinet a public-private partnership contract between the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and BTS Group Holdings, in which BTS will be offered a 30-year extension of the Green Line concession contract in exchange for a Bt73-billion debt owed by the BMA, a State Enterprise Policy Office news source revealed.

Fewer people used the rail-transport system during the latest long weekend compared to the previous long weekend of July 3-7, the Department of Rail Transport said on Wednesday (July 29).

Despite construction delays, the elevated MRTA Pink Line between Khae Rai and Min Buri will begin operating in September 2021, aiming for 200,000 passengers per day.