Spider tickets expected in October to allow commuters to travel by bus, train and boat with just one ticket

[Bangkok Barry]

I thought the plan was to have one ticket to use on the BTS and MRT and then the airport link was added. Now it is only for a few lines, so what is the point? Most people will still have to buy separate tickets as usual. What is it about this country that they can't implement anything properly. It's like dealing with five year olds.

 

Same as when they built the airport link, with no connection to the MRT and no proper place to catch a taxi at the Express terminal, and at the City Link terminal no escalators from the ticket office level to the BTS. Sorry, up escalators are there but the money for the down escalators probably went missing.

 

And buying tickets on the BTS - why will they sell you a multiple ride ticket at the ticket office but only give you change to buy a single ride ticket? What is that about? A devious and sadistic plan to make you queue once for change and then again to buy the ticket? Where else in the world do that do that? Anyone know?

[samsensam]

17 hours ago, yellowboat said:

This is way beyond BMA's ability. 

 

quite possibly, how they will include klong boats, river boats and all the various types of city buses will be interesting.

[Crossy]

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

And buying tickets on the BTS - why will they sell you a multiple ride ticket at the ticket office but only give you change to buy a single ride ticket? What is that about? A devious and sadistic plan to make you queue once for change and then again to buy the ticket? Where else in the world do that do that? Anyone know?

 

Try Rome, the one place you cannot buy a metro ticket is a metro station. Actually they have quite a good integrated system covering metro, bus and tram, you buy flat-fare tickets at the tobacconist or newsagent.

 

[yellowboat]

9 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

quite possibly, how they will include klong boats, river boats and all the various types of city buses will be interesting.

If they can integrate the BTS, City/Airport Link and MTR, that alone will be a major triumph. 

[Mark mark]

Yes Right on Ministry of Transport, ... catching up with the rest of the world and Nice ...

[ballpoint]

On ‎22‎/‎05‎/‎2017 at 10:36 AM, SABloke said:

Will people be able to use these spider cards on those buses with wooden floors?

Yes, you can jam it in the window to stop it sliding shut.

[coulson]

For the next step, the services will cover boat and train services which are now under construction, said Jiroot.

This about sums it up and where it will stop is at step 1. Being able to get a commuter pass in the BMA is plausible. Extending that concept beyond the commuter belt is a farce.

For a place that has the existing infrastructure loaded with minivans, vip, express, rapid, tour, direct, special express & limousine services up to its gills it is enormously difficult to transit over land in an organized itinerary. Thank f**# there are about 5000 operable/ semi redundant regional airports and taxis are cheap/ negotiable for extended journeys.

Unless you're going to/from/within Bangkok you may as well bring a book and stick out your thumb.