Air-Con Buses

[tommytouch]

Does anyone know of any air-conditioned buses travelling southwards along Ratchada road to Sukhunvit, that is Huay Kwang area to Asoke junction?

I've had a look at the BMTA website but it's not easy trying to work out all the various routes.

Thanks for any help.

[asanee]

to start with the rather bleeding obvious: there is the MRT-out of sight as its taay din=underground!

Buses going south along Ratchda are:

73/73koh: till DinDaeng, then to Rajprarop-WTC-Siam-MBK-Chinatown

514: as 73, but from WTC till Silom

98: -rare and only white rot ruam/fan: as you wish and turns LEFT onto Sukhumvit, ends Onnut

206:till Phetburi, left onto and ends in the far east near Seacon

137: ring, onto Ram IX, then RamKgHaeng-and back via Bangkapi and Lard Prao

172: as 73 till DinDaeng, then onto Vict. Monum-MBK-Chinatown, ends somewhere far far west over the river, KeHa FaiFa (=electric workers housing)

136=only red:, ditto 185:all the way south till Sirkitti, then ends at Kong Toey garage, near tesco and exCarrefour, now BigC. NORTh: 136 via Ratchyothin-Tesco/Central-Mochit to bus Mochit. 185 (but now out of use-garage flooded still)-via Sapan Mai till Rangsit

517: comes from Mochit-turns left onto Ram IX-then meanders thru east BKK and ends at lard krabang-just 1/2 km away from airportfields

529: as 172 (same comp.), but via a slightly different route and has many expressway fast buses into Thonburi

depending on your unstated section where on Ratchda, you may see also buses on the 36koh, 54, 12 and 157/ord, these only go a very short way and turn into the jam-clogged DinDaeng area, their terminuses are just beyond Ratchda, near the Robinson, as there is space there

There is a site sep up by a swede and then apparently forgotten as he felt embarrassed to be told it was based on the maps of an enterprising Japanese of 10 years ago: transitbangkok. That it is so old, hardly matters,as these routes have not changed since, only in outer suburbia many routes have been added or older routes have been extended. The major fault with this site is the airportlines, which changed very often the last years.

[allane]

# 136, both aircon. and non aircon. options available.

[asanee]

# 136, both aircon. and non aircon. options available.

wrong. at least 3-4 yrs now only red open air. many are free though. The 185-long. long ago, started as a AirCon only route, was not renumbered in the 5xx series when they did that and since has gone the oldest Hino's from Rangsit depot (still mostly out of use-as this is/was flooded)

IF insistant on AC public transpo-and a good way to avoid the terrible jams @ OSMT-and now that much needed thing for BKK-some other Centran for the hi-so, the MRT is the only way

[tommytouch]

# 136, both aircon. and non aircon. options available.

wrong. at least 3-4 yrs now only red open air. many are free though. The 185-long. long ago, started as a AirCon only route, was not renumbered in the 5xx series when they did that and since has gone the oldest Hino's from Rangsit depot (still mostly out of use-as this is/was flooded)

IF insistant on AC public transpo-and a good way to avoid the terrible jams @ OSMT-and now that much needed thing for BKK-some other Centran for the hi-so, the MRT is the only way

Thanks for all your detailed information.

It seems quite incredible to me that there isn't a single air-con bus and, from what you say, only one non air-con bus travelling along Ratchada to Sukhumvit, two of Bangkok's biggest and busiest roads! .

During the day I only ever use the MRT but it'd be nice to be able to jump on a bus late at night when traffic's not too bad, especially as there's a bus stop just a 3 minute walk away.

I'll give the 136 a try. When travelling at night on an empty bus with free-flow traffic air-con isn't essential (certainly not at the moment) and the 136 runs frequently until late.

Thanks again