Practically 80,000 passengers took benefit of the Yellow Line’s trial run over the weekend, because the Division of Rail Transport (DRT) plans to increase the trial to all 23 stations by mid-month. Pichet Kunadhamraks, the DRT’s director-general, said that the present trial run contains 13 stations from Hua Mak to Samrong.
Pichet famous that a lot of folks participated within the trial run, with 38,521 passengers on Saturday and 36,879 passengers on Sunday. The Yellow Line trains function each 10 minutes from 9am to 8pm day by day, providing free rides to passengers who get hold of tickets at every station’s sales space.
Based on Pichet, the trial run proceeded easily with no reported points.
“After one week of the trial run, we’ll take into account opening all 23 stations from Lat Phrao in Bangkok to Samrong in Samut Prakan.”
The 30.4-kilometre Yellow Line connects with the Inexperienced Line at Samrong Station, the Airport Rail Hyperlink at Hua Mak Station, and the Blue Line at Lat Phrao Station. Within the close to future, the Yellow Line may even hyperlink to the Orange Line by way of Yaek Lam Sali station, reported Bangkok Publish.
Pichet expects the variety of passengers to extend on weekdays because of the Yellow Line’s interchanges with different metropolis trains, reminiscent of MRT, BTS, and Airport Rail Hyperlink. The Yellow Line is anticipated to alleviate congestion on Srinakarin Street and Lat Phrao Street, as extra commuters decide to make use of the monorail service as a substitute of their vehicles.
Business operations for the Yellow Line are set to start subsequent month, with fares starting from 15 to 45 baht.
Final week, the BTS expressed its readiness to spend money on a 2.6-kilometre extension that will join its Yellow Line monorail to the Green Line of the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRT) at Ratchayothin and Lat Phrao stations. Surapong Laoha-Unya, CEO of BTS, said that the extension could be advantageous for commuters and that the corporate is ready to debate the matter with the MRTA. Learn extra HERE.