On 8/25/2016 at 11:02 AM, pookiki said:

Maybe the person/politician/junta member responsible for this colossal design guffaw should have to refund to the government the costs for constructing this sky train line with no sensible transfer at Bang Sue. And why limit reduced fares to persons purchasing 'smart cards'?  Certainly some irony there!

 

I agree with you.

 

But you would have to go right back to the initial contract stage of quite a few years ago and work forward from there to find the problems. I may date as far back as the coup of 2006/7, PPP under Samak and Somchai, Democrats under Abhisit or as late as the PTP under Yingluck.

 

It is unlikely to be the current government as they only inherited the problem as construction was well underway by the time they took over.

2 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

I agree with you.

 

But you would have to go right back to the initial contract stage of quite a few years ago and work forward from there to find the problems. I may date as far back as the coup of 2006/7, PPP under Samak and Somchai, Democrats under Abhisit or as late as the PTP under Yingluck.

 

It is unlikely to be the current government as they only inherited the problem as construction was well underway by the time they took over.

 

PL construction started in 2010, so you're probably not far adrift with the 2006/7 estimates of who had the final word and who made the money from galloping land prices.

 

On 25/08/2016 at 3:52 PM, Thian said:

We loose far too much time now because of congestion, hence we like to go shopping in Singapore or Tokyo these days...

 

That's not exactly convenient when I run out of milk though, is it.

Don't you have a 711 on the corner?