One card fits all Bangkok motorways and expressways to be launched

Report by BangkokJack News Team

 

 

One card fits all toll booths - coming soon

 

BANGKOK: -- The EXAT have announced that a one-card system will be introduced by the end of October meaning motorists will just need a single card to use any of Bangkok’s road tolls.

 

Drivers will be able to choose between using either the Easy-Pass or the M-Pass. The system will charge only one of the cards, usually the one receiving the strongest signal.

 

Mr. Anon Luangboriboon, Deputy Director of EXAT, said that they have been testing the system since the beginning of September with forty EXAT staff successfully using either card in the following areas:

 

1. Expressway no. 7 (Bangkok –Choburi- Pattaya)
2. Expressway no. 9 (Kanchanapisek East- West)
3. Chalermmanhanakorn (phase 1)
4. Srirach (phase 2)
5. Chalongrach (Ram-indra-Arjnarong, Ram-indra-Outer ring road)
6. Burapawithi (Bangna-Cholburi) . Uttaratthaya (Bangpa-in-Pakkred)
8. S1 (phase 3 Southern route S1 Arjnarong-Bangna)
9. Kanchanapisek (Bangplee-Suksawas, Southern Kanchanapisek)
10. Srirach-Outer ring around Bangkok (srirach-Outer ring, Morchid-Outer ring).

EXAT are expecting the new services to go live at midnight on October 31st.

 

The Department of Highways have also reported that the problem with the VAT calculation with the Easy-Pass card has now been resolved.

 

Source: http://bangkokjack.com/2016/10/07/one-card-system-for-bangkok-motorways-and-expressways-to-be-launched/

 

-- BangkokJack 2016-10-07

 

So, what do we EasyPass users have to do? Just enter the Mpass lane? Or is there some additional messing about needed?

 

I hope GPS tracking is in the new card.

Yet another proof of how stupid the entire thing started. Same with the BTS and MRT. 

See you further first; this means that they will have to equip all tollgates with both reading gizmos and this, by experience, will not work on Day 1.

And, if you're at it, how about the Don Muang Tollway which still accepts "cash only" and a tollgate on outbound 7 (between Bangkok and the pitstop on KM 50) which is permanently broken? 

Does this mean that the 'card' has to be used by feeding a machine at the tollgate or will (say) the 'M' Way tollgate recognise the Easy Pass RFID transponder and vice versa?

I hope GPS tracking is in the new card.

Why?

Besides what it actually says is you will be able to use either your existing MPASS or Easy Pass for all toll roads, it's not a new card replacing the existing ones

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At last some sensibility to ease the congestion at toll gates. The next stage of course could be the overhead toll reading system used in many other countries where you go thru at normal driving speed. WAIT! what the hell am I saying this is Thailand with Thai drivers!  

And it took them all these years to finally come up with that!

4 hours ago, Sydebolle said:

See you further first; this means that they will have to equip all tollgates with both reading gizmos and this, by experience, will not work on Day 1.

 

 

pessimist haha

 

"they have been testing the system since the beginning of September with forty EXAT staff successfully using either card in the following areas"

Both Easy Pass and M-Pass will be integrated to one card system on the November 1st.