We are blessed to be here at the beach, with no need for or desire to travel on trains,
To those promoting the idea of increasing or yet, doubling the fares, please feel free to carry on and bicker all you like, espout your intimate knowledge of the fare structures, running lines and schedules of this obviously necessary yet villified by many, transport system....
Just remember that the most important function of the BTS is to get Thai workers to their places of employment and back home again. Secondary consideration and probably not even contemplated when the initial concept was drafted, was getting drunken tourists, resident Expats to or from their drinking holes or anywhere else.