Bangkok transport’s long and bumpy journey to a common ticket system

[Caldera]

Kind of sad that Bangkok entered the game so late (in the late 1990s with the original BTS lines), and nevertheless got it so wrong.

 

There would have been dozens if not hundreds of cities worldwide whose systems they could have studied.

 

But no, re-inventing the wheel the Thai way. What a mess. 

[StayinThailand2much]

On 7/21/2023 at 9:56 AM, ChrisY1 said:

Difficult?...it's not really, but everyone wants to be in the scam!

Yes, all around the world it's being done. Only in Thailand they cannot coordinate the systems, as it's all about fiefdoms and get-rich-quick schemes... Never for commuters' benefit.

Edited July 22, 2023 by StayinThailand2much

[puck2]

It's exactly the the same idea I planed to write about here:  Only one ticket system!!!!

 

This should have been done already many, many years ago, when they had to plan the new total traffic system of Bangkok. But there must have been some national idi.@ots being to proud to give this job to not-Thai companies or not-Thai engineers of Western countries with a lot of experience.

 

The people using the Bangkok traffic system had to suffer from myopic politicians. Knowing the (corrupt) Thai political system, nearly anybody can guess, WHY this happened !

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Edited July 22, 2023 by puck2