BTS To Be Fined 1.8m Baht For Failures

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Passengers pack BTS Siam on Tuesday, a day which saw the skytrain break down six times. Photo: @Amf_patcharapol / Twitter

 

BANGKOK — City Hall Wednesday said it will fine the BTS Skytrain’s operators almost 2 million baht in response to 19 service outages this month, while the company remains silent on how it will compensate affected commuters.

 

Trains seemed to be running smoothly Thursday morning and the popular rail network’s Twitter account fired off numerous tweets in Thai and English saying the system was back to normal. That did not seem to reassure anxious commuters, who after days of serial service disruptions have been calling for the revocation of the operating license.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/bangkok/2018/06/28/bts-to-be-fined-1-8m-baht-for-failures/

 

-- © Copyright Khaosod English 2018-06-28

2 mln baht.. Small change for such a company. Add a few zeroes so they can feel the burn in the wallet.

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Trains seemed to be running smoothly Thursday morning

 Of course. PM Prayut is back in town and has fixed the problem. 

That should provide the motivation to send a PA to Panthip IT Plaza and buy a few more routers.

 

...... and an extension lead.

Edited June 28, 20188 yr by Kinnock

1 hour ago, Kinnock said:

That should provide the motivation to send a PA to Panthip IT Plaza and buy a few more routers.

 

...... and an extension lead.

They want to use wireless sensors which cause all the trouble. Why not go for wired sensors?

Thais are a funny lot...

 

The BTS breaks down for a few days (don't get me wrong, that's not good at all) and some folks in the public according to the OP article are calling on the BMA to revoke the BTS company's concession operating license.

 

And yet, pretty much the entirety of Thai business, retail, industry and government tend to operate on a threadbare shoestring most of the time, with failures, outages, mistakes, poor performance etc etc. pretty much a constant.

 

Where are all the citizens demanding that all those bone-heads get booted out of their jobs or that their departments be shut down when the police fail to do their jobs, cities can't manage to pick up the trash or operate sewage plants, can't provide decent lifeguard service at the beaches, can't operate safe bus or van transit lines, can't build roads, sidewalks etc that don't crack and fall apart almost immediately, and on and on....

 

And amid all that, some unspecified folks in the Thai public think the BTS company ought to have its operating license yanked, after almost 20 years of "mostly" trouble free operation in a vast ocean of incompetence.