City Hall Approves 256m Baht For BTS Elevators

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Manit Inpim and another disabled activist meet with Amorn Kitchawengkul, Bangkok deputy governor at BTS Phrom Phong station in 2016. Photo: Matichon

 

BANGKOK — A disabled activist Thursday welcomed City Hall’s budget approval to add more elevators to BTS Skytrain stations.

 

After years of legal action brought by a network of advocates for commuters with disabilities, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration on Wednesday approved 256 million baht to install 19 additional elevators at 16 stations as a class-action lawsuit moves forward against it.

 

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Now it will only take the BMA another 10 years to actually spend the money and install the elevators, most of which in the end probably won't work properly or will be locked down as some of the existing ones have been.

 

256 million for raw materials. Later another 500 million to finish it up.

...out of service half the time I have encountered them...and being used by staff another quarter of the time...

Likely outcome:  256m THB will be washed and rinsed through the bidding and contracting bureaucracy, and at the end of the project cycle the 'new' elevators will be chained shut and unused. 

And they will ever be cleaned or maintained